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From: "Martin Dowie" <martin.dowie@btopenworld.com>
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Subject: Re: Any examples of Byte Ordering Functions
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<tmoran@acm.org> wrote in message news:cNCjb.573899$cF.247166@rwcrnsc53...
> >build to.from arrays of Unsigned_32.
> >
> >You could write your own functions to do this - it is trivial, esp if you
>   How about raising the abstraction level and using Streams.  ie, don't
> read something as Unsigned_32, then byte swap (or not).  Instead define
> a 'Read for objects of the type and two implementation of that 'Read,
> one just reading four bytes and the other reading four bytes and swapping.

Yes, that sounds good but at the time I was working in an '83 shop,
so no streams.

Actually, the next time I used them I was working at a place that did
have an '95 compiler but prohibited the use of any '95 features! Sad
but true...