On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, umesh pandey wrote:
After converting FGNetFDM structure(given in net_fdm.cxx) by using
htonf,htond or htonl, do we need to convert the structure into char packets
and send to FGFS. I am using FGFS 0.9.3.
Hi!
Well, when you have used hton*() on your struct it should (hopefully[1])
have the right (i.e. the one you should send) represantation in memory so
you can just reinterpret your struct as a char array of the right form:
typedef struct {...} mystruct_t;
mystruct_t anInstance;
char * sendbuffer = (char *)&anInstance;
This pointer could then be passed to sendto(2) or similar.
[1] The critical point here is to be sure that the compiler does not
insert any padding into the struct. Alternatively one could manually
and explicitly move the contents of the struct into a char array to be
sure it has exactly the right form (this is what I would do since
it also documents the actual packet format a bit more clearly).
Cheers,
Anders
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