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From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re:   4 bytes to a long?
Message-ID: <mykes.3486@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG>
Date: 11 Jun 91 04:09:36 GMT
References: <55908@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Amiga makes it possible
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In article <55908@nigel.ee.udel.edu> jleonard@pica.army.mil writes:
>mrimages@beach.gal.utexas.edu in <451.28517f01@beach.gal.utexas.edu> write:
>       
>		Is there a fast, simple way to convert 4 bytes into a long?
>	
>I use :
>
>char ch[4];
>long l;
>
>memcpy( (char *)&l, ch, sizeof(long));

If portability isn't a concern:

	ULONG	l;
	char	*ch = &l;

ch[0] is MSB of l, ch[3] is LSB.  This is dependant on byte order of ULONG.

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