Combining two uint8_t as uint16_t

Question

I have the following data

uint8_t d1=0x01; 
uint8_t d2=0x02; 

I want to combine them as uint16_t as

uint16_t wd =         


        

Answer 1

(uint16_t)((d2 << 8) + (d1 & 0x00ff))