OT: Wacky Way To Read A Byte[] - someone help explain?

[Hans Fugal]

On Fri, 19 May 2006 at 14:52 -0600, Levi Pearson wrote:
> >
> >So, if the array has 0xC0 as the first byte, and 0x1C as the second  
> >byte, this should return the integer 49180.
> >
> >Right?
> 
> No, you'll notice that it is also reversing the byte order.  If the  
> byte at i is 0xC0 and i+1 is 0x1C, the int will be 0x1CC0, or 7360.   

Right, what he said. :)

That other guy may have a point with casting in Java. In C it's not
necessary.

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