- iPhone SDK equivalent to C#'s BitConverter.GetBytes() and BitConverter.ToInt32()
- NSNumber *aNumber = ...wherever this comes from...;
- NSData *dataBlob = [NSKeyedArchiver archivedDataWithRootObject:aNumber];
- /* and, later; this will return an autoreleased object so you quite possibly want
- to retain it */
- NSNumber *number = [NSKeyedUnarchiver unarchiveObjectWithData:dataBlob];