> Unfortunately I can't have the correct type for this field in C (it
> should be "2-bytes-little-endian-unsigned-integer-unaligned"), so I
> can't get type-safety here anyway. Declaring this field __le16 is IMHO a
> poor attempt as it creates an illusion of type safety when in fact there
> is no type safety guaranteed.
Then what tells you that char[8] is eight consecutive bytes in memory?
You'd use u8[]. If you do that, le16 is just as valid, especially if declared
unaligned.
Regards
Oliver
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