Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!news
From: scs@adam.mit.edu (Steve Summit)
Subject: Re: why do structs have different sizes across machines?
Message-ID: <1991Mar31.210135.3722@athena.mit.edu>
Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system)
Reply-To: scs@adam.mit.edu
Organization: Thermal Technologies, Inc.
References: <1991Mar30.021653.6492@uvm.edu> <29358:Mar3120:21:2991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu>
Distribution: na
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 91 21:01:35 GMT
Lines: 9

In article <29358:Mar3120:21:2991@kramden.acf.nyu.edu> brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) writes:
> In general it's
> easier to putchar(n/256); putchar(n & 255); than to worry about an XDR
> library, at least if you're trying to write portable code.

Or, for a truly outlandish solution, consider printf("%d\n", n); .

                                            Steve Summit
                                            scs@adam.mit.edu