Ooops!

My conversion data structure and code should look more like this, sorry!

union word_byte_u
{
    struct
    {
        unsigned char       low_byte;   /* the order of low_byte and high_byte
 declaration */
        unsigned char       high_byte;  /* would be compiler specific */
    } inner;
    unsigned long       the_word;
} u_convert;

Then when you wanted to convert two bytes to one word in your code:

u_convert.inner.low_byte = low_val;
u_convert.inner.high_byte = high_val;
answer = u_convert.the_word;


-Bill