From: Fergal Moran
> Yes, the values in PDB files are big endian. An offset of 0x0000012c
> would be stored 00 00 01 2c, as opposed to 2c 01 00 00. An easy way to
> Endian swap in VB is to read 1 byte at a time and use math:
> l = <read 1 byte>
> l = l * 256
> l = l + <read 1 byte>
> l = l * 256
> l = l + <read 1 byte>
> l = l * 256
> l = l + <read 1 byte>
> In C (and maybe VB) you can make the * 256 much faster by bit shifting
> (l <<= 8).
Or you could use htonl() and htons() which convert longs and shorts from
little to big endian
.F.
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