12.5 Microsoft C Byte Ordering

Tables 12.4 and 12.5 summarize Microsoft C byte ordering for short and long types, respectively. In these tables, the least-significant byte of the data item is b0; the next byte is denoted by b1, and so on.

Since byte ordering is machine specific, any program that uses this byte ordering will not be portable.

Table 12.4 Byte Ordering for Short Types

Table 12.5 Byte Ordering for Long Types