On Tue, 13 Apr 1999, Si Owen wrote:
> It'd probably work if done as a C union, but I wasn't sure how efficient > that'd compile up to be compared to the simple variable version. I might > give it a try with HL to see what different it makes. > > Si I was under the (probably ill-informed) impression that C unions were actually DEAD EFFICIENT. Maybe that efficency goes down if you try to access individual bytes from a union of, say, two eight-bit bytes or one sixteen-bit word (since those bytes cannot possibly be aligned to a 32bit boundary). Try it and see, I guess. dave
