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From: shawn@pnet51.cts.com (Shawn Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Format of LongInt, etc...
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Date: 29 Nov 88 20:05:20 GMT
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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.

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