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From: teittinen@cc.helsinki.fi
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Reversing Ints easily in TC++
Message-ID: <3716.272c0229@cc.helsinki.fi>
Date: 29 Oct 90 10:19:21 GMT
References: <i6TmR3w163w@doppler>
Organization: University of Helsinki
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In article <i6TmR3w163w@doppler>, jdries%doppler@faatcrl (J. Francis
Dries, III) writes:
> Almost all the non-Intel world (or so I'm
> told) writes ints MSByte first, whereas Borland's TC++ is
> reading/writing ints/longs (I need longs, since I'm working with 32bit
> ints from the Sun) LSByte first.
> 
> My Question is, is there a way to reverse the order, quickly or cleanly?
> 
> Any ideas?

If my memory serves me right (I don't have the manual with me right
now) there is a library routine named swab() which does the byte
swapping for you.

I think that it is very interesting to glimpse through the manuals once
in a while and find out some interesting and useful library functions... 

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