Re: portable way to get highest bit set?

On 11/10/2023 14:17, Anton Shepelev wrote:
> David Brown:
> 
>> But he/she also needs to say if 8-bit values are all that
>> are of interest, when considering portability.
> 
> Yes, endianness, and then a hackish way to hanle it is to
> use socket functions.  Hackish, because conceptualy that
> means the reliance of a general low-level function on a
> more specific and higher-level function/library.
> 

Endianness should not be an issue.  The question is about values, and 
values don't have endianness.  Only storage has endianness.