MAKEWORD  9A8YAK

The MAKEWORD macro creates an unsigned 16-bit integer by concatenating two given unsigned character values.

WORD MAKEWORD(

    BYTE bLow,

// low-order byte of short value

    BYTE bHigh

// high-order byte of short value

   );

 

 

Parameters

bLow

Specifies the low-order byte of the new short value.

bHigh

Specifies the high-order byte of the new short value.

 

Return Values

The return value is an unsigned 16-bit integer value.

Remarks

The MAKEWORD macro is defined as follows:

#define MAKEWORD(a, b) \

    ((WORD) (((BYTE) (a)) | ((WORD) ((BYTE) (b))) << 8))