Re: Making sense of 4-byte binary fields

["Buck Calabro" <buck.calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> So, keep your 4Bs, but remember to code the
> field as part of a data structure, not a standlone
> field. This way, the numbers do appear to make
> sense!(And we don't need to know that the
> machine can get 10 digits in 4 bytes!)

But that's exactly the point.  '1   4b 0' can only hold 9 digits, not
10.  The integer data type can hold 10 digits, so if you're using an
API that can return a full 10 digit integer, using the 'B' data type
will result in quiet truncation of your number and a meeting with your
friend 'unpredictable results.'  Happy debugging, because the code
might work for a decade and then go casters up with no warning
whatsoever.
  --buck