getting the bytes of a long

[Jason House]

Bill Baxter wrote:

> jc wrote:
>> hi,
>> 
>> is there a way to stuff the 8 bytes of a long into a byte array other
>> than to use a union to achive that?
>> 
>> cheers
>> jc
> 
> Take the address, cast to byte, deref byte by byte:
> 
>      (cast(ubyte*)&the_long)[0];
>      (cast(ubyte*)&the_long)[1];
>      (cast(ubyte*)&the_long)[2];
>      ...
> 
> --bb

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.