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Re: [RFC] Add htonll, ntohll?
- From: OndÅej BÃlka <neleai at seznam dot cz>
- To: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2013 20:58:49 +0100
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Add htonll, ntohll?
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:02:20PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I don't think anyone has a plan. I'm not sure anyone cares. We already
> have htobe64 and be64toh, which are identical to what htonll and ntohll
> would be. Those are arguably better interface names than the old "n" ones,
> since "be" for big-endian is more obviously talking about big-endian than
> is "n" for network. It's hard to see a case for adding aliases for
> interfaces we already have, just for parity with an ancient interface.
In git they considered these. There was a discusion about adding compatibility
versions, see
http://www.spinics.net/lists/git/msg219760.html