Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 17:48:14 -0400 (EDT) From: "Crist J. Clark" <cjc@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Questions) Subject: Reading 'Foreign' Binaries Message-ID: <199909152148.RAA28463@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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I have large (100s MB) files that are written in binary formats. That is, structures from C programs are just dumped to files using write(2). All of them are produced on SGIs (MIPS processor), which, like most computers, have the opposite endian convention than i386s. I have never had to deal with this issue before and have not been able to get this help from my usual C resources. I found the htonl, htons, ntohl, and ntohs family of functions, but they only seem to want to help with int's. The structures I want to read are full of int's, float's, double's, and char's. Looking over what happens when I write(2) float's from both platforms has not been particularly enlightening yet. I probably could figure this out given the time, but I would have to guess this has been dealt with many times before. Why re-invent the wheel? Can anyone point me in the right direction or offer direct help? Thanks. -- Crist J. Clark cjclark@home.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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