Subject: Re: Hm...
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: der Mouse <mouse@Rodents.Montreal.QC.CA>
List: current-users
Date: 02/03/2000 16:37:01
>> [I]n a declaration that names only [unsigned], "int" is implicitly
>> supplied.

> Hm.

> So, my defining WEIRD_ADDR as follows shouldn't do anything strange.
> It ought to give me four bytes of zero,

> #define WEIRD_ADDR      ((unsigned) 0x0)

Well, assuming four-byte ints, which I think is true on all NetBSD
ports at present.

> just as 0xdeadbeef would give me four bytes filled with de, ad, be,
> and ef in sequence.

Or ef, be, ad, de, if you're on a little-endian machine...and again
assuming four-byte ints.  Yes.

					der Mouse

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