Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cwjcc!hal!nic.MR.NET!shamash!com50!bungia!orbit!pnet51!shawn From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Format of LongInt, etc... Message-ID: <316@orbit.UUCP> Date: 29 Nov 88 20:05:20 GMT Sender: root@orbit.UUCP Organization: People-Net [pnet51], Minneapolis, MN. Lines: 19 zach@pro-pac.cts.com (Zach Taft) writes: >Hi again, > > Listen, I don;t know how anyone got on this tangent about >processors having different storage methods of integers... All I >need to know is HOW long and short integers are stored and used >in the APW programming environment, and this includes their use >in assembly language programming toolkit calls... The reason that >I want to know is so I can create a routine which converts TWO >8-bit numbers into a 16 bit number. Again the examples I showed An integer of $1234 is stored as ADDR:34 12 A long of $12345678 is stored as ADDR:78 56 34 12 Integers with the APW C compiler are stored in memory from low byte to high byte. UUCP: {rosevax, crash}!orbit!pnet51!shawn INET: shawn@pnet51.cts.com