Date: Thu, 14 Aug 1997 11:39:21 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
cc: max AT alcyone DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Why does sizeof give me...
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On Wed, 13 Aug 1997, Chris Croughton wrote:

> The only portable way is to do it yourself - either by breaking longer
> variables up into chars or in ASCII.  Especially since you can't rely
> on any byte ordering scheme (I gather there are some machines where a
> long is held in memory as bytes 2, 1, 4 and 3 or something similar, not
> even a reversible format).
> 
> Isn't this all in the FAQ?  Or was it one of the other C newsgroup FAQs?

This is a pure C issue, so it isn't in the DJGPP FAQ.  I believe the C
FAQ (from comp.lang.c) discusses this at some length.