I have been told that the in-memory layout of a Swift struct is
'undefined', so the C style of aliasing an array over a struct and
iterating across the struct is a definite no-no. Not surprising, since
aliasing violates all type-safe rules.
So, if you have this situation, you must address it on a case-by-case
basis. In my case, converting a hash algorithm from C to Swift, the
required C struct morphs into a Swift class, with a member function
'as_C_byte_array' which answers an array of the required form.
Internally, this function will shift and mask class attributes in order
to build the necessary result.
Ugly, but I must preserve the semantics exactly if I hope to generate
the exact same hash as the C version.
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Ken Burgett
Principal Software Engineer
Email: k...@iotone.io
Office: 530.693.4449
Mobile: 831.332.6846
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