chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) (07/01/88)
In article <4181@pasteur.Berkeley.Edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Tim Iverson) writes: >... when you have to interface directly with hardware or massage >foreign binary data into local format, [you may be forced] to abandon >the nice bit field and structure abilities of C and resort to bit masks >and character arrays to properly address the data. >Fortunately, some C compilers have an option to compile with "packed" >structures. A new "packed" keyword would be even better .... To see an alternative to a `packed' keyword, take a look at Mesa. Remember also that nothing helps when you must read data that was stored in trinary. . . . :-) -- In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 7163) Domain: chris@mimsy.umd.edu Path: uunet!mimsy!chris