From: aho450s AT nic DOT smsu DOT edu (Tony O'Bryan)
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Subject: Re: Simple Question
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 1997 21:29:35 GMT
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On 13 Mar 1997 11:51:45 GMT, nizea AT es DOT co DOT nz (Dave Smith) wrote:

>I have a simple question (I hope) for some of you out there :)
>How in C (esp. GCC) do I find the high order of a byte, in Turbo
>pascal I would do this... a := Hi($1234) which would return ($12),
>how can I do this in DJGPP?

To get the high byte of a 16-bit word in C:

a = (0x1234 & 0xff00) >> 8;