host to network double?

Question

I\'d like to send some double precision floating point numbers over the network. (standard C, standard sockets) There is no htond or ntohd to convert the data to and from ne

Answer 1

What Andre is saying is that binary floating point numbers are not trustworthy across networks because of differences between different computer architectures. Differences that go beyond byte order (big/little endian). Thus things like converting to strings or use of libraries such as XDR, is really necessary if there is any chance your data is going to be processed by different computer architectures.

The simple formats of integers and characters can slip through with just endian adjustments but floating point gets more complex.