I read this, and go "yes, yes, yes", and then "NO!". Shifts and ors really is the sanest and simplest way to express "assembling an integer from bytes". Maski

I read this, and go "yes, yes, yes", and then "NO!". Shifts and ors really is the sanest and simplest way to express "assembling an integer from bytes". Masking is _a_ way to deal with the current C spec which has silly promotion rules. Unsigned everything is more fundamental than signed.