Re: endianness and sscanf/sprintf

From: Richard Heathfield (invalid_at_address.co.uk.invalid)
Date: 01/01/04 

Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2004 14:30:27 +0000

EventHelix.com wrote:

> You will be fine as everything is being converted to characters.
> As long as characters are represented as 8 bytes, the numbers
> will be interpreted correctly.

In C (and, as far as I am aware, C++ too), characters are always represented
in a single byte. Character /constants/ are represented (in C, but not C++)
by the int type, which might conceivably be eight bytes. Is that what you
meant?

(Followups set to comp.lang.c) 

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