getting the bytes of a long

[Stewart Gordon]

"Jason House" <jason.james.house at gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> Does gdc run on any little endian machines?  I'm not sure which way arrays
> grow on such machines, but I think this could would give the reverse byte
> order of a big endian machine.

Array indexes always follow the sign convention of memory addresses.  The 
basic difference between big-endian and little-endian machines is which way 
the bytes of a number go relative to this sign convention.  So yes.

As such, accessing an integer as an array of bytes is a common technique for 
converting between little-endian and big-endian byte orders.

Stewart.

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