Wed Jul 7 18:10:35 1999 Alexander Babu Arulanthu <alex@cs.wustl.edu>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ace/CDR_Stream.h b/ace/CDR_Stream.h
index 38b5ada2e73..b4eafa98a62 100644
--- a/ace/CDR_Stream.h
+++ b/ace/CDR_Stream.h
@@ -722,9 +722,8 @@ public:
   // Re-initialize the CDR stream, copying the contents of the chain
   // of message_blocks starting from <data>.
 
-  ACE_Message_Block * steal_contents (void);
-  // Re-initialize the CDR stream, copying the contents of the chain
-  // of message_blocks starting from <data>.
+  ACE_Message_Block *steal_contents (void);
+  // Steal the contents from the currect CDR. 
 
   char* rd_ptr (void);
   // Returns the current position for the rd_ptr....
@@ -742,6 +741,10 @@ public:
   // If non-zero then this stream is writing in non-native byte order,
   // this is only meaningful if ACE_ENABLE_SWAP_ON_WRITE is defined.
 
+  int byte_order (void) const;
+  // If <do_byte_swap> returns 1, this returns ACE_CDR_BYTE_ORDER else
+  // it returns ~ACE_CDR_BYTE_ORDER.  
+
   ACE_Char_Codeset_Translator *char_translator (void) const;
   ACE_WChar_Codeset_Translator *wchar_translator (void) const;
   // Access the codeset translators. They can be nil!
diff --git a/ace/CDR_Stream.i b/ace/CDR_Stream.i
index 3b98423e2fa..b1d2f0bf978 100644
--- a/ace/CDR_Stream.i
+++ b/ace/CDR_Stream.i
@@ -1227,6 +1227,15 @@ ACE_InputCDR::do_byte_swap (void) const
 }
 
 ACE_INLINE int
+ACE_InputCDR::byte_order (void) const
+{
+  if (this->do_byte_swap ())
+    return ~ACE_CDR_BYTE_ORDER;
+  else
+    return ACE_CDR_BYTE_ORDER;
+}
+
+ACE_INLINE int
 ACE_InputCDR::align_read_ptr (size_t alignment)
 {
   char *buf = ptr_align_binary (this->rd_ptr (),