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MAKEDWORD
GETLOWORD
GETHIWORD

Macros for concatenating two word-sized integers into a long integer, or extracting the high or low order words from the long integer.

Usage:

#include <XDataUtil.h>

long MAKEDWORD(short hi, short lo)
short GETLOWORD(long lw)
short GETHIWORD(long lw)

Description

MAKEDWORD is a macro which concatenates two word-sized objects into a long-word sized object.

GETLOWORD extracts the low-order word from a long word object.

GETHIWORD extracts the high-order word from a long word object.

These are declared as macros, which has some consequences on how these macros can be used.


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