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Subject: Structure Alignment Violation Wanted...
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Date: 5 Aug 90 09:35:44 GMT
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I am reading binary data from a DEC machine, and I want to
interpert floats (=dec reals) and ints after I swab bytes.

The dec machine does not align ints and floats on mips word boundries.

I am finding that the structure I template has unwanted holes and
wrong offsets. Is there an 'Unaligned' int and float available ?

Also, what is the bit pattern for mips float ?

I assume that float are NOT promoted to doubles in 3.3(Right ?)

dan.
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