On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 23:11, Neil Brown wrote:
> This brings up endian-ness? Should I assert 'little-endian' or should
> the code check the endianness of the magic number and convert if
> necessary?
> The former is less code which will be exercised more often, so it is
> probably safe.
>From my own experience pick a single endianness otherwise some tool will
always get one endian case wrong on one platform with one word size.
>
> So:
> All values shall be little-endian and times shall be stored in 64
> bits with the top 20 bits representing microseconds (so we & with
> (1<<44)-1 to get seconds.
Could do - or struct timeval or whatever
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