On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 12:47:08PM -0800, Jim Duffy wrote:
> If my struct is 40 bytes long and the total of all the packed strings is 91,
> the I need to move 131 bytes into the record. But since a UInt16 is 2 bytes
> long, it seems I can only move it in increments of 2.
>
> ie: arrayP += 65;
> This would move it 130 bytes, but I would still be off by one byte..
Don't think of it as a UInt16, and don't access it in the packed record
via a UInt16 *; think of it as an integer encoded in two bytes in m68k
format, and access it with something like
unsigned char *packedP = <start of record>;
packedP += 131;
UInt16 first = (packedP[0] << 8) | packedP[1];
John "...a different emphasis from Ben's answer :-)"
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