[Tfug] Byte Order

[Felix Tilley]

I snipped the C file.  I have no means to test it.  I assume this does not work on unsigned integers.  Is this correct?  Anyway, this looks like a very useful program.

Felix
Tucson



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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:58:33 -0700
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Hi Jim,
For completeness, the sign is always the MSB, not necessarily the  
leftmost bit, and never the MSB of the low byte.

So -32767 is either
  1000000000000001
or
  0000000110000000
and never
  1000000100000000