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Can someone help explaining what this function calculates?In a reply from fragman i should replace it with NumGet.But i cannot figure out what it is doing


( Oh ...i believe it was code made by Skan )

ptr is a pointer
*ptr is the byte the pointer points to
++ptr moves to next byte
*++ptr is the byte at the new position
<<8 shift the bits 8 times to the left (mulitply by 256 (0x100))
++ptr moves to next byte
*++ptr is the byte at the new position
<<16 shift the bits 16 times to the left (mulitply by 256*256 (0x10000))
++ptr moves to next byte
*++ptr is the byte at the new position
<<24 shift the bits 24 times to the left (mulitply by 256*256*256 (0x1000000))

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Thanks Tonne

I will try it out with hex editor to get to the bottom of this

It seems you end up with 32 bits that are byte shifted in position ?

so reading bytes (pointer gets you "a") abcd becomes dcba ?

All it's doing it digging out the integer pointed to by ptr

It's in reversed byte order.