Quickest way to change endianness

Question

What is the quickest way to reverse the endianness of a 16 bit and 32 bit integer. I usually do something like (this coding was done in Visual Studio in C++):

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Answer 1

Who says it does too many calculations?

out = changeEndianness16(in);

gcc 4.6.0

movzwl  -4(%rsp), %edx
movl    %edx, %eax
movsbl  %dh, %ecx
movb    %cl, %al
movb    %dl, %ah
movw    %ax, -2(%rsp)

clang++ 2.9

movw    -2(%rsp), %ax
rolw    $8, %ax
movw    %ax, -4(%rsp)

Intel C/C++ 11.1

movzwl    4(%rsp), %ecx
rolw      $8, %cx
xorl      %eax, %eax
movw      %cx, 6(%rsp)

What does your compiler produce?