Is there a nice way to split an int into two shorts (.NET)?

Question

I think that this is not possible because Int32 has 1 bit sign and have 31 bit of numeric information and Int16 has 1 bit sign and 15 bit of numeric information

Answer 1

You can use StructLayout to do this:

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]
        struct Helper
        {
            [FieldOffset(0)]
            public int Value;
            [FieldOffset(0)]
            public short Low;
            [FieldOffset(2)]
            public short High;
        }

Using this, you can get the full Value as int , and low part, hight part as short.

something like:

var helper = new Helper {value = 12345};