[Icc-avr] Casting

[Michael Dipperstein]

I've been evaluating a few MCUs and the CodeWarrior compiler for
Motorola (oops.. Freescale) HCS08 parts defaults to big endian.  ICC AVR
is little endian.  Porting some of the endian specific code that was
talked about in this thread from one processor to another isn't as
simple as storing and retrieving using the same methods on both
processors.

-Mike

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[mailto:icc-avr-bounces at imagecraft.com] On Behalf Of Albert vanVeen
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Subject: RE: [Icc-avr] Casting

I think there has been too much emphasis on the endians in this thread.
Nearly always these conversions are wanted for storage in byte-arrays or
comms buffers, and as long as storing and retrieving uses the same
method (and a few were mentioned here!) it doesn't matter where msb or
lsb is. Using Motorola (oops.. Freescale), TMS, PIC & AVR, I haven't
stumbled over it yet.
I hope this doesn't upset Ton's "There is no excuse for sloppy
programming." in which he is perfectly correct of course.

Albert.