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From: "jaak at ristioja dot ee" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>
To: glibc-bugs@sourceware.org
Subject: [Bug libc/16459] endian.h does not define byte-order conversion functions
Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 19:49:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-16459-131-GaitW6Uc4p@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <bug-16459-131@http.sourceware.org/bugzilla/>

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16459

--- Comment #2 from Jaak Ristioja <jaak at ristioja dot ee> ---
(In reply to joseph@codesourcery.com from comment #1)
> glibc does not provide manpages, and they are not relevant to what glibc's 
> interface should be.  (glibc's code should of course be consistent with 
> the manual shipped with glibc; I haven't checked what if anything that 
> says about these interfaces.)

It appears that these interfaces are undocumented in the Texinfo manual.

Why not just add these as functions also, e.g. as done with htons and friends
in <netinet/in.h>:

  extern uint16_t htons (uint16_t __hostshort)
     __THROW __attribute__ ((__const__));

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-01-16 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-16 12:52 [Bug libc/16459] New: " jaak at ristioja dot ee
2014-01-16 19:01 ` [Bug libc/16459] " joseph at codesourcery dot com
2014-01-16 19:49 ` jaak at ristioja dot ee [this message]
2014-01-16 20:50   ` Ondřej Bílka
2014-01-16 20:51 ` neleai at seznam dot cz
2014-06-13  8:55 ` fweimer at redhat dot com

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