[Nottingham] A Little Coding Gem

[Mike Cardwell]

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On 15/11/12 22:09, Martin wrote:

> We have a mix of "big endian" and "little endian" systems, however
> that is of little concern being as whatever endian-ness is
> untangled at whatever communications or storage interface is used.

Also, big/little endian tends to apply to the order of bytes, whereas
this bit of code changed the order of the bits inside the bytes too.

Also, I feel the need to correct myself: this horrible bit of code
which I pasted into that pastebin:

  str += (n >> i << (sizeof(n)*8-1) >> (sizeof(n)*8-1)) ? '1' : '0';

Can be replaced with the much simpler:

  str += (n >> i & 1) ? '1' : '0';

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