"John Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:72894@palm-dev-forum... > > On Sun, Jan 06, 2002 at 11:13:18PM -0600, Ben Combee wrote: > > A quick note: In CodeWarrior, 'abcd' always considers 'a' to be the > > high byte of the UInt32. The C++ parser basically sees this as a > > base-256 number > > In my opinion, 'abcd' is a portability nightmare.
Agreed. Internally in our Metrowerks code, we use a FOURCHAR() macro for things like that for the reasons you specified. I was just giving some flavor to the conversation by giving an example of how those can be interpreted on different systems. -- For information on using the Palm Developer Forums, or to unsubscribe, please see http://www.palmos.com/dev/tech/support/forums/
