john13@garfield.UUCP (John Russell) (01/13/88)
Thanks to those who replied on the question of how to create an array of 1 type (eg UBYTE) which would be guaranteed to be aligned on a certain boundary (eg longword boundary). The answer is to use a union, then you can refer to the members of the array (or whatever) as items of either type. This has now been installed and works fine in the program I needed it for, resulting in a noticeable speed increase -- 2 long compares vs 8 byte compares. The only thing is, now the cordless phone in the other room beeps in another rhythm when it hits that subroutine :-) (it really does!). John PS Now all I'm missing is some comprehensive Clipboard routines. But I may post v1.0 of the program without them since it works fine using the "write to pipe: file" option. -- "Operating systems room, prepare for shutdown." "I never thought I'd be HAPPY to see our ratings do DOWN!" -- lots of these were sprinkled throughout the last broadcast episode of _Max_Headroom_