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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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"chris" <spamoff.danx@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> Didn't know about that, thanks!  That means if we want to output any

Your welcome :-)

>        A := Byte (Shift_Right (Unsigned_32(W), 8));

Make Word a subtype of Unsigned_16 and you don't need to
convert to Unsigned_32. If you don't want to do this then you
can convert to Unsigned_16 as you are shifting right not left
(value of smaller magnitude not larger).

> and this will work whatever the platform we compile on?

yup