Endian Conversion Library

A library for converting between endianness that doesn't depend on external libraries.

Place conv_endian.c and conv_endian.h into your source files

The library can be optionally be built by calling make or using CMake

Downloads

You can download the source code for the library here: https://github.com/Aftersol/convEndian/releases

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Examples

Reading big endian data

//...
 
// receive data
 
char yourBuffer[512];
int* ptr_to_buffer = (int*)yourBuffer;
int value;
 
// read big endian
fread(yourBuffer, sizeof(int), 1, yourfile);
 
value = *ptr_to_buffer;
 
// to be converted and store in whatever endian your machine runs on
value = read_be_u32(value);
 
//...

Writing big endian data

//...
 
// write or send data
 
// to be converted into big endian value
int value = 1234567890;
value = convert_to_be_u32(value);
 
// write big endian integer
fwrite(&value, sizeof(int), 1, yourfile);
 
//...