Re: htonl, htons, ntohl and ntohs types

[lars at segv dot dk (Lars Munch)]

On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 12:00:00PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On Apr 21 11:25, Lars Munch wrote:
> > Hello
> > 
> > I have noticed that the types of the functions htonl, htons, ntohs and
> > ntohl differs from standard (and linux):
> > 
> > http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/000095399/functions/htonl.html
> > 
> > Cygwin uses:
> > 
> > unsigned long int        ntohl(unsigned long int);
> > unsigned short int       ntohs(unsigned short int);
> > unsigned long int        htonl(unsigned long int);
> > unsigned short int       htons(unsigned short int);
> > 
> > The standard (and Linux) has:
> > 
> > uint32_t htonl(uint32_t hostlong);
> > uint16_t htons(uint16_t hostshort);
> > uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t netlong);
> > uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t netshort);
> > 
> > Is there any reason for this difference?
> 
> Nobody had a problem so far?
> 
> Fixed in CVS.

Wow, that was fast. Thanks!

My code still gives me warnings due to a problem with stdint.h.

The Xint32_t typedef's uses long instead of int:

>From stdint.h:

typedef long int32_t;
typedef unsigned long uint32_t;

I think they should be:

typedef int int32_t;
typedef unsigned int uint32_t;

Regards
-- Lars Munch

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