Endiannes & Splitting Values

[Lodovico Giaretta via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 10:45:12 UTC, Gary Willoughby wrote:
> On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 08:21:53 UTC, Lodovico Giaretta 
> wrote:
>> Are you sure that this works in both big-endian and 
>> little-endian systems?
>
> It shouldn't matter. You're just interested in the high and low 
> 4 byte chunks (which are to be interpreted as an int) which 
> will return in the relevant endianess of your machine.

But are the high 4 bytes the first 4 or the second 4? It depends 
on endianness. So your high and low variables may be switched, if 
I understand correctly.