How to mask bytes in ARM assembly?

Question

i have got an 32bit (hexadecimal)word 0xaabbccdd and have to swap the 2. and the 3. byte. in the end it should look like 0xaaccbbdd

how can i \"mask\" the 2nd and the 3r

Answer 1

You vould just use pointers to swap two bytes

static union {
 BYTE   BBuf[4];
 WORD   WWBuf[2];
 DWORD  DWBuf;
}swap;

unsigned char *a;
unsigned char *b;
swap.DWBuf = 0xaabbccdd;

a = &swap.BBuf[1];
b = &swap.BBuf[2];

*a ^= *b;
*b ^= *a;
*a ^= *b;

And now the result is

swap.DWbuf == 0xaaccbbdd;