Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 00:33:40 05/14/03
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On May 13, 2003 at 22:55:33, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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.. For those, like me, who read about big and little endian here for some times and didn't know what it is : http://www.cs.umass.edu/~verts/cs32/endian.html
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