Re: DIME on various platform.

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 04:14:31 -0700, Dror Harari
<[email protected]> wrote:

>Luis,
>
>The endianity is made a non-issue by adopting the commonly
agreed-on
>network format of big-endian. All the integers embedded in DIME
messages
>are taken to be big-endian. It is the responsibilityh of the DIME
>implementation on a given platform to construct or deconstruct
messages
>accordingly.
>
>See the DIME spec, section 3.1, "Data Transmission Order"
>
>/d

Thanks for your quick answer.

But i still wonder I(or somebody who will write DIME parser) have
to program differently according to each platform.

Why not Internet network standard byte order using ntohl or htonl?
Do they think it costs much to use that?

Luis