Re: Hi byte and Lo Byte Question

[Ted Dennison<dennison@telepath.com>]

In article <9m0gn6$b6j$1@zeus.orl.lmco.com>, mop says...
>I need to parse data into hi byte and lo byte. Does Ada have some built in
>macros or .... I could use?  From the looks of it no.

You mean attributes or subprograms of course. Ada has no macros (which I am
quite happy about).

>here's the C version .... Need the Ada version as am new to Ada.
>
>lo = LOBYTE(Value);   -- need Ada version for this LOBYTE macro
>hi = HIBYTE(Value);    -- need Ada version for this HIBYTE macro
>WORD.Data.Word5_Data_Value_In_HB_LB_Order[0] = hi;
>WORD.Data.Word5_Data_Value_In_HB_LB_Order[1] = lo;

This doesn't tell us much. What do these macros do *exactly*? If it has
something to do with byte values in multi-byte words, how does what they do
differ on big-endian and little-endian machines?

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