hello Vic thank you for all your responses.
i was just trying to use union as an alternative to that problem and hence
following your response i changed the array to contain 2 elements according to
the 'endian' thing., here is the code :
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#include <stdio.h>
union vals {
unsigned short x;
unsigned char y[2];
} myvals;
int main() {
myvals.y[0] = 1; //lsb
myvals.y[1] = 21; //msb
printf("%d", myvals.x);
printf("\n %d", sizeof(myvals));
}
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the only changed thing is uchar y[1]; is replaced by uchar y[2];
i compiled and executed the program using turbo c++ 3 and it gave the same
output as it gave previously even sizeof showed out the size of myvals to be 2!
i have some queries to you and others in this group please clarify them:
1. the code is successfully executing and giving satisfactory output, but is
that output compiler dependant though it was using a feature of C?if so then
why is it, i mean what is the difference?
2. can i in any case use unions safely for brians problem?
3. why does sizeof showed the size of myvals to be 2 bytes?
again thanks for your comments and am waiting for your reply.
With Regards
Anup Joshi
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