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diff --git a/CODING_STYLE b/CODING_STYLE index e762d42edb..f31d76f8ce 100644 --- a/CODING_STYLE +++ b/CODING_STYLE @@ -399,3 +399,10 @@ least initially), but it needs to be there. This is particularly important for objects that unprivileged users may allocate, but also matters for everything else any user may allocated. + +- htonl()/ntohl() and htons()/ntohs() are weird. Please use htobe32() and + htobe16() instead, it's much more descriptive, and actually says what really + is happening, after all htonl() and htons() don't operation on longs and + shorts as their name would suggest, but on uint32_t and uint16_t. Also, + "network byte order" is just a weird name for "big endian", hence we might + want to call it "big endian" right-away. |