Strange behavior

[Reinhard Pagitsch]

Hello,

I have an other problem which I do not understand:

Here the code piece:

#define NOP 0xd3eeee
void WriteNOP(PerlIO* fh)
{
    WriteTriplex(fh, NOP);
}


int WriteTriplex(PerlIO* fh, long triplex)
{
    int i;
    char buf[4] = { '\0' };
    printf("The triplex: %x\n", triplex);
    buf[0] = (char)triplex>>16;
    buf[1] = (char)triplex>>8;
    buf[2] = (char)triplex;
    printf("The triplex: %s\n", buf);
    return PerlIO_write(fh, buf, 3);
}


If I do this in the file I get FFFFEE and not as expected D3EEEE.
The printf statements but showing me the the correct output.

Does anyone know why?

regards,
Reinhard