[PATCH 2/5] Use correct swap{l,s} (or none at all for CARD8)

[Daniel Stone]

Hi,

On Fri, Aug 05, 2011 at 04:07:13PM +0200, walter harms wrote:
> I am not sure if i understand the purpose of swap() really.

To account for different byte ordering (rather than bit ordering) on
machines of different endianness.  The bit ordering is already taken
care of for us by everyone swapping to network bit ordering when putting
stuff on the wire, and to host bit ordering when pulling stuff off the
wire.  This is why you can access a web server running on x86_64 from
the SPARC workstation that everyone totally has, without each side
needing to know about the other's endianness preferences.

Cheers,
Daniel