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You oughtn't ever need deal with endianness unless you're doing one of three things:
* Writing a specification for a network protocol or file format
* Reading/writing to a network
* Reading/writing to an external file
==[[Compilation]]==
If your compiler isn't properly folding down constant expressions involving byteswaps, the following are defined in linux's <tt>asm/byteorder.h</tt>:
* __constant_htons()
* __constant_ntohs()
* __constant_htonl()
* __constant_ntohl()
[[CATEGORY: Networking]]

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