Howdy,

I see some functions to convert between "natural" numbers and big-endian
numbers.  Specifically: benlong() in makedb.c and natlong() in natben.c,
used by init_getstring() in getstring.c.

What I notice is that these functions unconditionally mangle the byte
order, so if a number is big-endian to begin with, benlong() actually
converts it to little-endian.

I would like to use WORDS_BIGENDIAN from config.h to make the functions
in natben.c conditional (ie: on a big-endian system, benlong(x) == x).
Are there any comments on this?

Another problem is that the code assumes that sizeof(long)==4.  On some
platforms this is not true, ie: NetBSD/sparc64 has sizeof(long)==8, and
the current code loses.

Ben