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From: geoff@collyer.net
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] structure allocation.
Date: Mon,  6 Mar 2006 18:37:52 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2e567163be1a7bcfb00188625bc09359@collyer.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060307023001.3706311735@dexter-peak.quanstro.net>

You declare it like this:

typedef struct {
	char	f;
	uchar	l[4];
	char	g;
	uchar	m[4];
} Dac960fu;

and convert l and m using the usual integer-to-bytes and
bytes-to-integers macros or functions, presumably the little-endian
versions.  Mylex were crazy to lay the data out this way.



  reply	other threads:[~2006-03-07  2:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-03-07  2:30 erik quanstrom
2006-03-07  2:37 ` geoff [this message]
2006-03-07  3:00   ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-07  3:11     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-07  4:13     ` geoff
2006-03-07 15:41       ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-07 15:53         ` C H Forsyth
2006-03-08  0:06         ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-08  2:21           ` Ronald G Minnich
2006-03-08  2:50             ` geoff
2006-03-08  4:10               ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-08  4:37                 ` Russ Cox
2006-03-08  4:55                   ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-08  5:03                     ` Russ Cox
2006-03-08  5:05                       ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-08  5:09                         ` Russ Cox
2006-03-08  5:12                           ` Bruce Ellis
2006-03-08 12:11               ` Brantley Coile
2006-03-07 17:47       ` Bakul Shah
2006-03-07  9:23     ` Charles Forsyth
2006-03-07 11:54       ` erik quanstrom
2006-03-07 13:55         ` jmk
     [not found]       ` <000501c641de$afc905d0$14aaa8c0@utelsystems.local>
2006-03-07 14:21         ` "Nils O. Selåsdal"
2006-03-07 14:30           ` uriel
2006-03-07 14:43             ` Russ Cox
2006-03-07 14:48             ` C H Forsyth
2006-03-08  0:28           ` erik quanstrom

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