From e2f521eb1957fa4449bc3f868a0fbeba79f6a838 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthias Clasen Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2005 18:36:39 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Add docs for #307047, Bryan Silverthorn. 2005-07-19 Matthias Clasen * glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml: Add docs for #307047, Bryan Silverthorn. --- docs/reference/ChangeLog | 5 +++++ docs/reference/glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml | 7 ++++++- 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/reference/ChangeLog b/docs/reference/ChangeLog index c90ec1b..1f426de 100644 --- a/docs/reference/ChangeLog +++ b/docs/reference/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2005-07-19 Matthias Clasen + + * glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml: Add docs for #307047, + Bryan Silverthorn. + 2005-07-15 Matthias Clasen * === Released 2.7.3 === diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml index 3006a48..e146a65 100644 --- a/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml +++ b/docs/reference/glib/tmpl/byte_order.sgml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ a portable way to convert between different byte orders. These macros provide a portable way to determine the host byte order -and to convert values between different byte orders. +and to convert values between different byte orders. The byte order is the order in which bytes are stored to create larger @@ -38,6 +38,11 @@ which has been agreed on for use when communicating between different processors. The Internet uses what is known as 'network byte order' as the standard byte order (which is in fact the big-endian byte order). + +Note that the byte order conversion macros may evaluate their arguments +multiple times, thus you should not use them with arguments which have +side-effects. + -- 2.7.4