porting C code

[Lucas Raab]

Peter Hansen wrote:
> Lucas Raab wrote:
> 
>> Sorry, the third "byte" is what I meant. 
> 
> 
> Fair enough.  Note, however, that as someone pointed out,
> it's actually the *fourth* of something, and it would not
> necessarily be a byte.  In fact, in your case, it's not:
> 
>> typedef   unsigned long int  word32 ;
>> void mu(word32 *a)
>> {
>> int i ;
>> word32 b[3] ;
> 
> 
> This defines an array of *3* long (32-bit) integers.
> 
>> b[0] = b[1] = b[2] = 0 ;
> 
> 
> Each of these is just indexing into that array, starting
> as Python does with an index origin of zero.
> 
>> The "a[#]" and "b[#]" are the parts that are giving me trouble.
> 
> 
> Between the clarifications you've got and Duncan's post,
> you shouldn't have much more trouble now. :-)
> 
> -Peter

Thanks.