Ed VanderPloeg wrote:
>
> At 01:13 PM 3/6/97 PST, you wrote:
> >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
>
> Lovely!  That's just what I must have had in the back of my mind.  Hey
> Matt, if you can spare the two bytes of RAM then you can toss this into
> your macro.
>
> -Ed V.
Nice code - putting it in now.  Thanks to those who responded: Ed V,
Bill, John (BTW John, how's the weather in Sidney by the Sea - just
moved to Calgary from beautiful Brentwood Bay).

Matt