Network programming Weird ouptut

Quest101 · 02-16-2005, 02:23 PM

Hi ,
I am doing a bit of network programming and I am currently using MSVC. There is an object of type u_int8_t called datacopy. Now using the debugger i tried to get the contents of datacopy , however the output looked like :

datacopy 0x00469418 "
ð_º
ð_º
ð_º
ð_º
ð_ºîþ««««««««îþ"

Now data buffer is suppose to have the contents of a received packet.

If anyone could interpret this output , i would greatly appreciate it

Thanx in advance

sigsegv · 02-16-2005, 03:39 PM

Looks like binary data to me (as it should be). Are you doing the appropriate byte swapping in there somewhere? ntohl() ntohs() htonl() and htons() are what you would use on a *NIX machine. Not sure on win32, but they should be the same (these are POSIX functions)