I am curious though, in the general case of taking stuff off the wire
and doing work on it in-place. Would you suggest two structs for things
like this, one in cpu-order and one with the endian annotations, then
the one place where you receive can do appropriate endian conversion
using a pointer to a wire-endian struct and the rest of the code just
uses the cpu-endian struct everywhere?
Just a general design question.
In the DLM case, these util functions are only used in 1-2 places each
so it wouldn't be too bad to fold them into the receive/send paths, but
you still need to byteswap somewhere, just curious what you are
suggesting.
Harvey
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