"Woody" <nomail@nomail> wrote:
> I did check out the first website. However I found the endian preprocessor macro
> confusing. To be honest. I was never trained in plain C, only C++.

Fair enough.  It could be worse though.  I suppose I was only 'trained' (hardly)
in Visual Basic (shudder) and Fortran (marginally less shudder).  So I agree,
but maybe this would be a good start:

http://www.space.unibe.ch/comp_doc/c_manual/C/CONCEPT/bitwise.html

> I used the VC++ toolkit MS put out in 2003. Anybody know any free C compilers
> where this might work for an intel Machine?

Doesn't work in VC++?  Haven't used that compiler and for that matter I don't do
much in C++, but I would think it would be mostly compatible.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibility_of_C_and_C%2B%2B

> Which Preprocessor Macro on the Paul Bourkes page should I be using?

Hmm.  One then the other?  Can never remember.  Sorry I'm just dismissing your
questions with links, but the bottom line is that C/C++ is very easy to learn
since there are so many good webpages on the matter.  Takes some time, but it's
not bad.  Good luck.

 - Ricky

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