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@ -348,6 +348,17 @@ portability for both programs and data.</p>
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<p><b>Why not use the Linux names (htobe16, htole16, be16toh, le16toh, etc.) ?</b></p>
<blockquote>
<p>Those names are non-standard and vary even between POSIX-like operating
systems. A C++ library TS was going to use those names, but found they were
sometimes implemented as macros. Since macros do not respect scoping and
namespace rules, to use them would be very error prone.</p>
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<h2><a name="Acknowledgements">Acknowledgements</a></h2><p>Tomas Puverle was instrumental
in identifying and articulating the need to support endian conversion as separate from
endian integer types. Phil Endecott suggested the form of the value returning signatures.
@ -362,7 +373,7 @@ that became the starting point for <b><code>boost/endian/detail/intrinsic.hpp</c
Pierre Talbot provided the <code>int8_t endian_reverse()</code> and templated
<code>endian_reverse_inplace()</code> implementations.</p>
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<p>Last revised: <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->26 March, 2015<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="28922" --></p>
<p>Last revised: <!--webbot bot="Timestamp" s-type="EDITED" s-format="%d %B, %Y" startspan -->21 July, 2015<!--webbot bot="Timestamp" endspan i-checksum="21136" --></p>
<p>© Copyright Beman Dawes, 2011, 2013</p>
<p>Distributed under the Boost Software License, Version 1.0. See <a href="http://www.boost.org/LICENSE_1_0.txt">www.boost.org/ LICENSE_1_0.txt</a></p>