<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <title>Tips and tricks</title> <meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.72.0"> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="GNet Network Library Reference Manual"> <link rel="up" href="gnet-developers.html" title="GNet for developers"> <link rel="prev" href="gnet-developers.html" title="GNet for developers"> <link rel="next" href="gnet-developers-async.html" title="Hiding blocking"> <meta name="generator" content="GTK-Doc V1.8 (XML mode)"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="style.css" type="text/css"> <link rel="chapter" href="gnet-overview.html" title="GNet Overview"> <link rel="chapter" href="gnet-developers.html" title="GNet for developers"> <link rel="chapter" href="gnet-examples.html" title="GNet Examples"> <link rel="chapter" href="libgnet-reference.html" title="GNet Library Reference"> </head> <body bgcolor="white" text="black" link="#0000FF" vlink="#840084" alink="#0000FF"> <table class="navigation" id="top" width="100%" summary="Navigation header" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2"><tr valign="middle"> <td><a accesskey="p" href="gnet-developers.html"><img src="left.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Prev"></a></td> <td><a accesskey="u" href="gnet-developers.html"><img src="up.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Up"></a></td> <td><a accesskey="h" href="index.html"><img src="home.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Home"></a></td> <th width="100%" align="center">GNet Network Library Reference Manual</th> <td><a accesskey="n" href="gnet-developers-async.html"><img src="right.png" width="24" height="24" border="0" alt="Next"></a></td> </tr></table> <div class="sect1" lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"><div><div><h2 class="title" style="clear: both"> <a name="gnet-developers-tips"></a>Tips and tricks</h2></div></div></div> <p> GNet was designed so that most of the implementation is hidden from the programmer. You should not have to include any network header files other than <code class="filename">gnet.h</code>. </p> <p> By convention, integers are usually transfered in big-endian, or network-byte, order. GLib has conversion functions for shorts and ints: <code class="function">g_ntohs</code> (network-to-host short), <code class="function">g_htons</code> (host-to network short), <code class="function">g_ntohl</code> (network-to-host long), and <code class="function">g_htonl</code> (host-to-network long). </p> </div> </body> </html>