Re: FW: [iPAQ] skiff tools question

Gordon McNutt writes:
> I think I have a solution that will work for me:
>
> struct u16_t { u16 a ; } __attribute__ ((packed));
> ...
> u8 buf[4];
> struct u16_t *a ;
> a = (struct u16_t*)&buf[j];
> a->a = 4;

I would do this instead:

buf[j] = (4) & 0xff;
buf[j+1] = (4) >> 8;

It will work regardless of alignment or endianness. And it generates
good code because it all gets peephole-optimized away into the right
thing for the processor in question.

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