little endian , big endian , big headache

[manishster]

I keep getting the following in my output file , regardless of whether
I convert endian-ness or not [ currently commented out in the code
below ]. How do i get "01 02 03 04" ....

Mahamannu

output : 04 03 02 01 b0 00 00
Code :
//nHeight = swap_script(nHe ight);
//nWidth = swap_script(nWi dth);
nHeight = 0x01020304 ;
// nHeight = (nHeight >24) | ((nHeight << 8) & 0x00FF0000) |
((nHeight >8) & 0x0000FF00) | (nHeight << 24) ;
printf("and the height value after changing endian-ess is ");
printf("0x%08x\ n",nHeight) ;

fwrite(&nHeight , sizeof(unsigned int), 1, fOut);
fwrite(&nWidth, sizeof(unsigned int), 1, fOut);

[manishster]

As I said I have commented the code that converts the endian-ness, but
that code works, i.e. the printf in the next line does show the
opposite endian-ness, but after writing through the fwrite its always
same [ 04 03 02 01 ]

manishs...@gmai l.com wrote:

I keep getting the following in my output file , regardless of whether
I convert endian-ness or not [ currently commented out in the code
below ]. How do i get "01 02 03 04" ....

Mahamannu

output : 04 03 02 01 b0 00 00
Code :
//nHeight = swap_script(nHe ight);
//nWidth = swap_script(nWi dth);
nHeight = 0x01020304 ;
// nHeight = (nHeight >24) | ((nHeight << 8) & 0x00FF0000) |
((nHeight >8) & 0x0000FF00) | (nHeight << 24) ;
printf("and the height value after changing endian-ess is ");
printf("0x%08x\ n",nHeight) ;

fwrite(&nHeight , sizeof(unsigned int), 1, fOut);
fwrite(&nWidth, sizeof(unsigned int), 1, fOut);

[manishster]

Alright , no need to break you heads, My code was doing whats shown
below in a loop, so it would flip the endian-ness everytime , Just so
happened the output files I looked up were the ones where the
endian-ness was reset.
hope ya'll have a good day ,

just wondering though WHY this little to big and big to little isn't
part of some standard library !
ma********@gmai l.com wrote:

As I said I have commented the code that converts the endian-ness, but
that code works, i.e. the printf in the next line does show the
opposite endian-ness, but after writing through the fwrite its always
same [ 04 03 02 01 ]

manishs...@gmai l.com wrote:

I keep getting the following in my output file , regardless of whether
I convert endian-ness or not [ currently commented out in the code
below ]. How do i get "01 02 03 04" ....

Mahamannu

output : 04 03 02 01 b0 00 00
Code :
//nHeight = swap_script(nHe ight);
//nWidth = swap_script(nWi dth);
nHeight = 0x01020304 ;
// nHeight = (nHeight >24) | ((nHeight << 8) & 0x00FF0000) |
((nHeight >8) & 0x0000FF00) | (nHeight << 24) ;
printf("and the height value after changing endian-ess is ");
printf("0x%08x\ n",nHeight) ;

fwrite(&nHeight , sizeof(unsigned int), 1, fOut);
fwrite(&nWidth, sizeof(unsigned int), 1, fOut);

[Default User]

ma********@gmai l.com wrote:

Alright , no need to break you heads

Please don't top-post. Your replies belong following or interspersed
with properly trimmed quotes. See the majority of other posts in the
newsgroup, or:
<http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html >

Brian (here we go again)

[Lew Pitcher]

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ma********@gmai l.com wrote:
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just wondering though WHY this little to big and big to little isn't
part of some standard library !

Probably for the same reason that window management, robotics control,
communications stacks, and financial computations aren't part of "some
standard library"; that is to say, because they aren't needed in a
standard library, and if you /do/ need them, you can either write them
yourself or find a /non-standard/ library that supports them.

HTH
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[Stephen Sprunk]

<ma********@gma il.comwrote in message
news:11******** **************@ 74g2000cwt.goog legroups.com...

Alright , no need to break you heads, My code was doing whats shown
below in a loop, so it would flip the endian-ness everytime , Just so
happened the output files I looked up were the ones where the
endian-ness was reset.
hope ya'll have a good day ,

just wondering though WHY this little to big and big to little isn't
part of some standard library !

Because it's easy enough to write such a macro/function yourself if you
need one?

<OTIf your system supports sockets, which nearly all do these days,
then you'll almost certainly find the macros ntohl(), htonl(), htons(),
and ntohs() available in some header. These will convert between host
(native) and network (big-endian) byte orders if they differ. On POSIX
systems, you're likely to find them in <netinet/in.h>; I don't know
where they live on Windows systems.

If you don't have sockets, there's still good odds that the
implementation provides the macros bswap(), byteswap(), or something
similar. These, however, have the property that, if used on a
big-endian system, they will swap your data to little-endianness, which
probably isn't what you want. </OT>

S

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