NERDVANA wrote:

Are you sure a "sign bit" is what you have here?

Yeah, once I got the behavior I was looking for out of the instructions, I then realized I hadn't thought through the problem very well. Already adjusting the algorithm. Just ... y'know, needed the steps to behave (or, more to the point, get my understanding of how the steps would behave in alignment with reality, but, y'know, that's a lotta' words. :-) )

It's interesting. I'm creating a new standard which is neither Big-Endian nor Little-Endian.

I think it might need to be dubbed "Bad Endian" when I get it working. :-(
But it will do what I need and that's of course the final arbiter.

Thanks for the help and advice. I appreciate it.