C++ int to byte array

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You don’t need a whole function for this; a simple cast will suffice:

int x;
static_cast<char*>(static_cast<void*>(&x));

Any object in C++ can be reinterpreted as an array of bytes. If you want to actually make a copy of the bytes into a separate array, you can use std::copy:

int x;
char bytes[sizeof x];
std::copy(static_cast<const char*>(static_cast<const void*>(&x)),
          static_cast<const char*>(static_cast<const void*>(&x)) + sizeof x,
          bytes);

Neither of these methods takes byte ordering into account, but since you can reinterpret the int as an array of bytes, it is trivial to perform any necessary modifications yourself.

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