Richard Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Multibyte paddings fine for some situations and I think all compliers for
> these targets do it. However Im talking about receiving comms data as byte
> streams, a different matter entirely
>
> If a structure of words is recieved over a serial link as a byte stream then
> you dont know if if the words are aligned or not.
>
> You can either read it all as bytes and recombine it yourself - therefore
> not being able to overlay a structure.
> or see if the first byte is at an odd address and if so do a MemMove
> (source_address+1,source_adress, len) to align it all.
>
> Most compliers sort this out for you.
Thanks for explaining. Apparently I *don't* know everything, after all
:-)
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Roger Chaplin
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