Hello Gurus,

I am facing trouble in serializing and deserializing int.

Code:
typedef char int_8;

int_8* SerializeInt(int value)
{
	int_8* buff = new int_8[4];
	*( buff++ ) = ( int_8 )( value >> 24 );
	*( buff++ ) = ( int_8 )( value >> 16 );
	*( buff++ ) = ( int_8 )( value >> 8  );
	*( buff++ ) = ( int_8 )( value	   );
	return buff;
}


int DeserializeInt(int_8*& m_buff)
{
	int temp = *( m_buff++ );
	temp = ( temp << 8 | *( m_buff++ ) );
	temp = ( temp << 8 | *( m_buff++ ) );
	temp = ( temp << 8 | *( m_buff++ ) );
	return temp;
}
Problem is when I use SerializeInt( value) function and pass any value to be serialized and when I deserialized the returned value I get -3 always.

I am not able to locate the problem and debugger also is not of great help here..

Thanks in advance

Regards
Prashant.