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@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 21:29:05 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.\" Modified Thu Jul 26 14:06:20 2001 by Andries Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
.\"
-.TH BYTEORDER 3 2023-07-20 "Linux man-pages 6.05.01"
+.TH BYTEORDER 3 2023-10-31 "Linux man-pages 6.7"
.SH NAME
htonl, htons, ntohl, ntohs \- convert values between host and network
byte order
@@ -20,10 +20,10 @@ Standard C library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.B #include <arpa/inet.h>
-.PP
+.P
.BI "uint32_t htonl(uint32_t " hostlong );
.BI "uint16_t htons(uint16_t " hostshort );
-.PP
+.P
.BI "uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t " netlong );
.BI "uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t " netshort );
.fi
@@ -33,25 +33,25 @@ The
function converts the unsigned integer
.I hostlong
from host byte order to network byte order.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR htons ()
function converts the unsigned short integer
.I hostshort
from host byte order to network byte order.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR ntohl ()
function converts the unsigned integer
.I netlong
from network byte order to host byte order.
-.PP
+.P
The
.BR ntohs ()
function converts the unsigned short integer
.I netshort
from network byte order to host byte order.
-.PP
+.P
On the i386 the host byte order is Least Significant Byte first,
whereas the network byte order, as used on the Internet, is Most
Significant Byte first.
@@ -72,7 +72,6 @@ T{
.BR ntohs ()
T} Thread safety MT-Safe
.TE
-.sp 1
.SH STANDARDS
POSIX.1-2008.
.SH HISTORY