Re: Hi byte and Lo Byte Question

[Darren New <dnew@san.rr.com>]

> They work, along with several others. I picked the ones w/ mask & shifts
> because older compilers tend to generate good code for them [the
> examples you provide require the compiler to detect division by a power
> of two and convert...].

I was using C compilers under CP/M that could handle this, so it
couldn't be *that* hard. :-)

I like it because it's symetric in the case of non-binary bases.

high_digit := (value mod 10)
low_digit  := (value / 10)

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