title: Getting most significant byte of qint64
body: <p>In QT I have a qint64. Is there an easy way of dividing this up into pieces of size int8_t?</p>
  
  <p>For clarity, if I had a </p>
  
  <pre><code>qint64 a = [11001000 00001111 11110000 ... 11001100] 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I would like to get </p>
  
  <pre><code>int8_t a1=[11001000] 
  int8_t a2=[00001111]
  int8_t a3=[11110000] 
  ... 
  int8_t a8=[11001100]
  </code></pre>