From: Dave Burt <dave@...>
Date: 2007-06-23T11:40:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby equivalent of htons or htonl

akbarhome wrote:
> I try to port this c code:
> *(uint16_t *)(ptr+FSP_OFFSET_KEY)=htons(p->key);
>     *(uint16_t *)(ptr+FSP_OFFSET_SEQ)=htons(p->seq);
>     *(uint16_t *)(ptr+FSP_OFFSET_LEN)=htons(p->len);
>     *(uint32_t *)(ptr+FSP_OFFSET_POS)=htonl(p->pos);
> 
> About uint16_t, I have bit-struct library. But htons messed up my
> head.
> 
> I found this link:
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/18681

We would still do htons() and hotnl() the same way.

Obviously we don't have uint16_t in Ruby, and we do struct a bit
differently; what are you actually trying to do?

Cheers,
Dave