2's compliment conversion

[grahamASL]

Hi
I have 3 bytes of data that I am told represent a 24 bit integer. I am also told that the the data is in 2's compliment.
How do i covert the bytes to an integer value

Thanks for your time

[Richard.J]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two's_complement

[S_M_A]

unsigned char data[3];
int result = ((data[0] << 24) + (data[1] << 16) + (data[2] << 8)) >> 8;

Assuming the data is big-endian and that int is 32 bits on your platform. The last shift is to sign extend the result.

[grahamASL]

Thanks!!!