The alien.endian vocabulary defines c-types that are endian-aware for use in structs. These types will cause the bytes in a byte-array to be interpreted as little or big-endian transparently when reading or writing. There are both signed and unsigned types defined; signed is the default while unsigned are prefixed with a u. The intended use-case is for network protocols in network-byte-order (big-endian).
Byte-reversal of integers:
The big-endian c-types are:
The little-endian c-types are:
Syntax for making endian-aware structs out of native types:
Byte-reversal of integers:
byte-reverse ( n signed? -- quot )
The big-endian c-types are:
be8
be16
be32
be64
ube8
ube16
ube32
ube64
The little-endian c-types are:
le8
le16
le32
le64
ule8
ule16
ule32
ule64
Syntax for making endian-aware structs out of native types:
LE-STRUCT:
BE-STRUCT:
LE-PACKED-STRUCT:
BE-PACKED-STRUCT: