From: ryot AT bigfoot DOT com (George Ryot)
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Subject: Re: From Bytes to Int and Char
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"Campbell, Rolf [SKY:1U32:EXCH]" <cp1v45 AT americasm01 DOT nt DOT com> wrote:

>     I don't understand how your code is any less of a 'hack' than mine.  Both are not
> endian safe.  Both will work consistantly on each individual machine (I'm not saying
> that you could exchange data files and have them work).  How is my code 'unsafe'?

Casting between pointers to different types is nearly always unsafe.

The code I posted will solve the original problem (as I understand it)
and will work the same on *all* implementations except attention is
required to unsigned values.

The original post has now been answered and this has little to do with
DJGPP.

Nick, if you still have problems feel free to email me.  Better still,
try a more appropriate forum such as alt.comp.lang.learn.c-c++ or
comp.lang.c where many C/C++ gurus are waiting to help you.
-- 
george