🚀 go-pugleaf

It turns out the easiest way to do this is to write the stuff directly out
into a file rather than going through a buffer. The RandomAccessFile class
has a very nice writeShort() method. So I just call that twice, then write
out the bytes of the message into the file.

  --Bob Muller

Robert J. Muller wrote:

> I'm converting an elderly C program to Java, and one function writes  a
> message into a buffer preceded by a header containing two short integers
> in the first four bytes of the file (pardon the globals):
>
> char gbuffer[8192];
>
> void write(char *message, short len, short b) {
>
> memcpy(gbuffer, (char*)&len, 2);
> memcpy(&gbuffer[2], (char*)&b, 2);
> memcpy(&gbuffer[4], message, len+1);
> }
>
> Can anyone tell me how to get the first four bytes of a byte[] to look
> like this given two shorts?
>
>   --Bob Muller