///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// // Name: funcmacro_byteorder.h // Purpose: Byte Order function and macro group docs // Author: wxWidgets team // RCS-ID: $Id: funcmacro_gdi.h 52454 2008-03-12 19:08:48Z BP $ // Licence: wxWindows licence ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// /** @defgroup group_funcmacro_byteorder Byte Order @ingroup group_funcmacro The endian-ness issues (that is the difference between big-endian and little-endian architectures) are important for the portable programs working with the external binary data (for example, data files or data coming from network) which is usually in some fixed, platform-independent format. The macros are helpful for transforming the data to the correct format. */