/* endian_test.c - test that arithmetic shifting works to build integers
 * Andrew Ho (andrew@zeuscat.com)
 *
 * I've been building a lot libraries that read and write binary files,
 * and always use network byte order to store integers on disk. This is
 * just a quick sanity check to prove that using C << and >> operators
 * does this correctly (that is, that they do an arithmetic shift) when
 * applied at least to unsigned integers.
 *
 * To be useful you really need to run this on two different architectures
 * whose endianness is different (I use Intel and Sparc).
 *
 * Build: gcc -Wall -o endian_test endian_test.c
 * Usage: endian_test
 */

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv) {
    unsigned char i = 0x01, j = 0x02;
    unsigned int  k = j | (i << 8);
    printf("i = 0x%02x, j = 0x%02x, k = 0x%04x\n", i, j, k);
    return 0;
}