source: fact/tools/pyscripts/sandbox/dneise/fact_compress/c++/test.cpp

#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <stdio.h>

using namespace std;
int main()
{
  ofstream out ("test.bin", ios::binary);

  short *a = new short[10];
  char *b = (char*)a;
  for (int i=0; i<10; i++)
  {
      a[i] = -1938+i;
  }
  
  for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
  {
    printf("%X ", (unsigned char)b[i]);
  }
  printf("\n");
    for (int i=0; i<20; i++)
  {
    printf("%X ", ((unsigned char*)a)[i]);
  }
  printf("\n");

  out.write((char*)a, 10*sizeof(short));
  out.write(b, 10*sizeof(short));
  out.write(b, 20);
  
  out.close();
  return 0;
}