Network Byte Order
Also known as Big-Endian. Which means the most significant byte comes first in storage. Sparc and Motorola 68k based chips are MSB ordered.
(SDL defines this as SDL_BYTEORDER==SDL_BIG_ENDIAN)
Little-Endian(LSB) is stored in the opposite order, with the least significant byte first in memory. Intel and AMD are two LSB machines.
(SDL defines this as SDL_BYTEORDER==SDL_LIL_ENDIAN)
For network addresses, 1.2.3.4 is always stored as {0x01 0x02 0x03 0x04}.
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