getting the bytes of a long

[Bill Baxter]

Jason House wrote:
> 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.

Yep.  Order most definitely depends on endianness.  Intel is little 
endian.  If you're planning on sending those bytes over a network you'd 
better swap em if you've got version(LittleEndian).

--bb