Observations from an old timer playing with 64 bit numbers...

[Luigi Rizzo]

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 05:46:02PM -0400, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hi all:
> 
> I have had some fun in my day job playing with exchanging 64bit  
> numbers. Unfortunately
> there is no ntohll() OR htonll() which would be the logical thing (for  
> us old farts) to use.
> 
> Yes, I have found htobe64() and friends.. and that would work.. but I  
> still cannot
> help but feeling we should have the ntohll() and htonll().. for  
> consistency if nothing
> else.
> 
> Any objections to this showing up in a head near you soon (speak soon  
> or I will commit
> the patches to add these ;-D)

strong objection!
We should instead use names with exact sizes (16,32,64).
In case you want to use Roman Numbers, 64 would be LXIV :)

cheers
luigi