Re: [9fans] more on why vc can't produce amd64 executables

[Bakul Shah]

On Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:36:40 EDT erik quanstrom <quans...@quanstro.net> wrote:
>       uvlong x;
> 
>       x = 0x012345678abcdefull;
>       print("(uchar)x %.2ux\n", (uchar)x);
...
> x = 0012345678abcdef
> (uchar)x      ef

You're casting a large int into a small int and this seems right.
Just as (uchar)0x1234 => 0x34

> marshalling a 64-bit pointer in this way will lay down the
> bytes with the hi and lo reversed.

Perhaps you meant to do *(uchar*)&x?