[Bug network/14988] Add ntohd(), ntohf(), ntohll(), htond(), htonf(), htonll() for sending/receiving IEEE 754-formatted floats/doubles/long-longs

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http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14988

--- Comment #2 from Majic <majic.one at gmail dot com> 2013-03-07 04:52:25 UTC ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> Are these functions purely Microsoft-isms, or are they available on actual
> implementations of the BSD sockets API?
> 
> (I'm asking because we're not goint to add CreateFile etc., either. 8-)

As far as I am aware, these are only found on Windows (8) atm. :>  I have not
seen them anywhere else.  I would also not be interested in a CreateFile(), but
I do feel like Microsoft has met a need here.  Using snprintf() with its %a
conversion specifier to go from a double to a hex string and then later
converting it back is unnecessarily costly..  I hope this is not too
presumptuous to say, but glibc (being a major player) could add these and
encourage their acceptance into POSIX. Microsoft didn't exactly do anything
strange extending beyond htons() with these.  I know the focus of glibc isn't
to set standards but to adhere to them.  I just feel like in 2013 there should
be at least a glibc-standard way of sending network floats (and receiving
them).

Again, I hope I'm not expecting too much :>

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