RE: [ECOS] data alignment issues

[rob dot wj dot jansen at philips dot com]

Trenton,

> Why not send structures if it works?  After all, if I've tested it and

Oops, this is where I hit the send button too fast. What I meant is that you should not do this right away
but first check what happens (as you did). I am used to have a seperate versions of structs for file/network
I/O and internal use, the same program on a different platform will only need the I/O one - plus functions
to populate - to be changed.

Depending on the compiler used (both are gcc I think) you could use a packed structure by using the
"__attribute__ ((packed))" on the struct definition. When you are using lots of chars and shorts this will
really make some impact on the size of the struct.

> I didn't mean I couldn't read a float in hex.  I mean I don't know how
> it's stored in binary.  As in 00001000.10000000 would be 8.5, but I

Thanks, you got me scared for a minute :-) I wrote a MC68000 floating point library in assembly and
this is not something you want to remember too long ...

Regards,

Rob Jansen

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