Re: portable way to get highest bit set?

David Brown <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Oct 2023 18:28:24 +0200
Newsgroups comp.lang.c,alt.comp.lang.c
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/10/2023 18:20, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> David Brown <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Endianness should not be an issue.  The question is about values, and
>> values don't have endianness.  Only storage has endianness.
> 
> But solutions could use the byte representation and endianness would
> then come into it.
> 

Sure.  But that would be an artefact of a particular solution, rather 
than being inherent in the problem.