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# Makes our short integers platform-independent (big vs little endian)


proc toDouble*(input: int | uint | uint16): array[2, uint8] =
    ## Converts an int (either int, uint or uint16)
    ## to an array[2, uint8]
    result = cast[array[2, uint8]](uint16(input))


proc fromDouble*(input: array[2, uint8]): uint16 =
    ## Rebuilds the output of toDouble into
    ## an uint16
    copyMem(result.addr, unsafeAddr(input), sizeof(uint16))