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From: c60b-1eq@e260-1g.berkeley.edu (Noam Mendelson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Little problem with sizeof on PC
Message-ID: <1991Apr24.032428.18207@agate.berkeley.edu>
Date: 24 Apr 91 03:24:28 GMT
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In article <1991Apr23.155042.5532@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> allender@cso.uiuc.edu (Mark Allender) writes:
>Just a followup to me problem with the word alignment in this structure..
>The data that I am reading in someone else's form, and has to stay this way.
>I can't change it.  And indeed, I would rather have the data in raw binary
>form.  There is a filler byte inserted after the filler2[15] declaration.
>The best suggestion around this was to read the entire 201 bytes into
>a char buffer[201] array, and then memcpy the elements into their corresponding
>location.

How about reading the struct in two steps, first reading everything up to
the end of filler2[] (not including the byte padding), then reading the 
rest into the float number?
That would be much more efficient (memory- and speed-wise) than that
e-mail suggestion.

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