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From: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: How to reverse bits...
Message-ID: <496@demott.COM>
Date: 14 Aug 90 21:04:54 GMT
References: <2059@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Reply-To: kdq@demott.COM (Kevin D. Quitt)
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In article <2059@ux.acs.umn.edu> dhoyt@vw.acs.umn.edu writes:
>In article <1990Aug13.185757.3236@sti.fi>, ttl@sti.fi (Timo Lehtinen) writes...
>>This might be trivial, but here goes...
>>What's the most optimal way to reverse the bits in an unsigned char,
>>i.e. change from MSB to LSB ordering ?
>
>  You don't have to change anything.  Big and little endians only cause
>trouble when you look at different integer formats.  Bytes is bytes, as they
>say.

    Hey Timo, isn't this special? You don't *really* want to reverse the
bits in your byte, you can just imagine them the other way around! Boy!
Does that save CPU cycles, or what?

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