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Subject: Re: c programming q

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:55:33 05/13/03

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On May 13, 2003 at 18:33:56, Dieter Buerssner wrote:

>On May 13, 2003 at 14:03:06, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>I never saw a reference to "int" in  what I responded to.  In fact, the
>>example given was a struct with four bytes.
>
>You probably overlooked it. There was a union. One part was the struct of the
>four chars, the other part was the int.
>
>In http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?296029 you cited the whole
>post including the union and the "int" (move). I think, from the context it was
>rather clear that the question "Is there any specific order in which the chars
>are aligned into the int, or is it compiler-dependent?", were refering to those
>parts of the union.
>
>Regards,
>Dieter


In that regard, then it was my error.  The "endian" stuff is well-known.
I even have an "ENDIAN" macro in crafty to make it compile and work on big
and little endian machines..




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