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Diffstat (limited to 'sysdeps/generic/netinet')
| -rw-r--r-- | sysdeps/generic/netinet/in.h | 15 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/sysdeps/generic/netinet/in.h b/sysdeps/generic/netinet/in.h index ad77c8be7d..5531fc2ece 100644 --- a/sysdeps/generic/netinet/in.h +++ b/sysdeps/generic/netinet/in.h @@ -190,12 +190,17 @@ struct ip_mreq struct in_addr imr_interface; /* local IP address of interface */ }; -/* Functions to convert between host and network byte order. */ +/* Functions to convert between host and network byte order. -extern unsigned long int ntohl __P ((unsigned long int)); -extern unsigned short int ntohs __P ((unsigned short int)); -extern unsigned long int htonl __P ((unsigned long int)); -extern unsigned short int htons __P ((unsigned short int)); + Please note that these functions normally take `unsigned long int' or + `unsigned short int' values as arguments and also return them. But + this was a short-sighted decision since on different systems the types + may have different representations but the values are always the same. */ + +extern u_int32_t ntohl __P ((u_int32_t __netlong)); +extern u_int16_t ntohs __P ((u_int16_t __netshort)); +extern u_int32_t htonl __P ((u_int32_t __hostlong)); +extern u_int16_t htons __P ((u_int16_t __hostshort)); #include <endian.h> |