bit twiddling (endianness)
Lutger
lutger.blijdestijn at gmail.com
Mon Jan 8 06:23:43 PST 2007
Hi, I need to convert a uint to 4 ubytes in big endian order for which I
have written the function below. The thing is, I'm not 100% sure it is
correct for Big Endian systems, would somebody be so kind as to inform
me if this will work?
void concatUint(inout ubyte[] bytestream, uint num)
{
bytestream.length = bytestream.length + 4;
static if (std.system.endian == Endian.LittleEndian)
{
bytestream[$-4] = num >> 24;
bytestream[$-3] = num >> 16;
bytestream[$-2] = num >> 8;
bytestream[$-1] = num;
}
else // big endian
{
bytestream[$-4] = num;
bytestream[$-3] = num >> 8;
bytestream[$-2] = num >> 16;
bytestream[$-1] = num >> 24;
}
}
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