Converting float values from big endian to little endian

Question

Is it possible to convert floats from big to little endian? I have a big endian value from a PowerPC platform that I am sendING via TCP to a Windows process (li

Answer 1

Here is a function can reverse byte order of any type.

template 
T bswap(T val) {
    T retVal;
    char *pVal = (char*) &val;
    char *pRetVal = (char*)&retVal;
    int size = sizeof(T);
    for(int i=0; i