I think it is because of the MSB order. Would it be implemented as LSB, I'm
sure the high byte would be the one to be padded :)
G.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jean-Luc Lachance" <jllachan(at)nsd(dot)ca>
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 7:39 PM
> It is unintuitive to me that the low byte be padded. Shouldn't it be
> the high byte?
>
> JLL
>
> Joe Conway wrote:
> > * bitdata -- bit string, most significant byte first