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From: Hans Petter Selasky <hps@bitfrost.no>
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On 01/24/14 16:11, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> ... How's that matter?
>
> Adrian

Ok, read slowly:

uint32_t x = 255U;
uint8_t y;

On Big endian:

memcpy(&y, &x, 1);

y == 0;

On Little endian:

memcpy(&y, &x, 1);

y == 255;

If I'm not mistaken. The code is wrong because result depends on 
endianness :-)

--HPS