I have the following variable:

const input = [0x0001000200030004]

And I have a function to unpack four numbers from 1 (it cames from a C++ code, where I have four int16_t that are packed into a single uint64_t)

export function unpack(input: number[]) {
  const output: number[] = []

  for (const packed of input) {
    for (let i = 0; i < 4; i++) {
      const num = (packed >> (i * 16)) & 0xffff

      const signedNum = num < 0x8000 ? num : -(0x10000 - num)

      output.push(signedNum)
    }
  }

  return output
}

The function kind works; however, it is out of order.

Instead of the output being [1, 2, 3, 4], it is [1, 2, 4, 3].

What I’m doing wrong?

>Solution :

The issue is that bitwise operators convert their operands to 32-bit integers first (unless working with BigInts). But 0x0001000200030004 cannot be represented using 32 bits, so the code does not work properly. The solution is to simply use BigInts for all operations instead.

You would also need to reverse the order of iteration or reverse the output at the end to get the most significant digits first.

function unpack(input) {
  const output = [];
  for (const packed of input) {
    for (let i = 3n; i >= 0n; i--) {
      const num = (packed >> (i * 16n)) & 0xffffn;
      const signedNum = num < 0x8000n ? num : -(0x10000n - num);
      output.push(signedNum);
    }
  }
  return output;
}
console.log(unpack([0x0001000200030004n]).map(x => x.toString()));