Byte order with a large array of characters in C

Question

I am doing some socket programming in C, and trying to wrestle with byte order problems. My request (send) is fine but when I receive data my bytes are all out of order. I s

Answer 1

Apart from your original question (which I think was already answered), you should have a look at your malloc statement. malloc allocates bytes and an unsigned short is most likely to be two bytes.

Your statement should look like:

unsigned short *ptr = (unsigned short*) malloc(total * sizeof(unsigned short));