Tuesday, April 30, 2002, 4:48:02 AM, Jochen wrote:
> Hi Andrew.
> On Mon, 29 Apr 2002 22:50:00 -0400, Andrew Patrikalakis wrote:
>>endian-ness, someone PLEASE look at byte_order.c and help me with that!).
> Why you do this?
> #ifdef LITTLE_ENDIAN
> char *s;
> s = dest;
> #endif /* LITTLE_ENDIAN */
> memcpy(dest, &l, 4);
> #ifdef LITTLE_ENDIAN
> (*s) = ((((*s) << 24) & 0xFF000000) | (((*s) << 8) &
> 0x00FF0000) | (((*s) >> 8) & 0x0000FF00) | (((*s) >> 24) &
> 0x000000FF));
> #endif /* LITTLE_ENDIAN */
> I would do it like this:
> #ifdef LITTLE_ENDIAN
> char s[4];
> #endif /* LITTLE_ENDIAN */
> memcpy(dest, &l, 4);
> #ifdef LITTLE_ENDIAN
> s[0] = dest[3];
> s[1] = dest[2];
> s[2] = dest[1];
> s[3] = dest[0];
> memcpy(dest, s, 4);
> #endif /* LITTLE_ENDIAN */
> How do you like this?
> Jochen
And a friend of mine calls this a geek list. Sheesh. <g>
Bradford Schmidt
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