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From: asente@decwrl.UUCP (Paul Asente)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Packed Structures?
Message-ID: <3373@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 30-Sep-83 16:28:20 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 30 16:28:20 1983
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Packed structures sound like a great idea.  Earlier this summer I had
to deal with a device that required certain 32-bit integer quantities
to be aligned on 16-bit boundaries in its command packet format.  The
solution I ended up coming up with is one of the all-time great kludges
of my life (involving storing the longs as arrays of 2 shorts and doing
pointer coercion all the time) and everything would have been much
easier if I could have just said to pack the array the way I specified
it!

	-paul asente
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