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From: dfoster@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Derek R. Foster)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Reversing Ints easily in TC++
Keywords: Int, Intel, Motorola
Message-ID: <9448@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Date: 31 Oct 90 03:47:19 GMT
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Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
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In article <i6TmR3w163w@doppler> jdries%doppler@faatcrl (J. Francis Dries, III) writes:
>I was hacking up a program to convert Sun Rasterfiles to GIF files when
>I ran into a little problem.  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?

In the case of ints, look up the "swab" function. I don't know about longs,
though.

Derek Riippa Foster