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rewrite the endian conversion to fix a big-endian host #2754

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@kernigh kernigh commented Feb 7, 2023

(This might need a Jira ticket, but I don't have a Jira account. I will try to ask for a Jira account, but I'm not sure how.)

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Change htolell(dub) to htolell(transfer.t) in compact.h, because the conversion takes a long long, not a double. This matters on a big-endian host, where the conversion must swap bytes.

The big-endian letohll(n) failed because ntohl(n) is just n, doesn't swap n. Rewrite ntohll(n) and letohll(n) to use the same code with both big-endian and little-endian hosts. Expect the compiler to optimize away one of ntohll(n) or letohll(n) when it doesn't swap n.

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Client: py

Change htolell(dub) to htolell(transfer.t) in compact.h, because the
conversion takes a long long, not a double.  This matters on a
big-endian host, where the conversion must swap bytes.

The big-endian letohll(n) failed because ntohl(n) is just n, doesn't
swap n.  Rewrite ntohll(n) and letohll(n) to use the same code with
both big-endian and little-endian hosts.  Expect the compiler to
optimize away one of ntohll(n) or letohll(n) when it doesn't swap n.
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