Lpc2000

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Jan Thogersen <jan@...> wrote:
> 
> I went for the quick fix... The pragma packed worked just fine!
> 

Glad to have been of help, and that you have it working. 

It really comes down to the extent, size and structure of the 
software which is the "best" approach (if such a thing ever exists). 
For example, if you have a lot of code that uses the data structure, 
and only one or two places where it has to be copied to an external 
system (flash card, comms link etc.) than it's probably worth going 
through the pain of producing byte stream encoding/decoding 
functions. That way the code will work reasonably efficiently, and 
more importantly will work on any target with any compiler (works 
with any "endian" system, too, which packing can't sort out).

If on the other hand the structure is very localised to a piece of 
code that does the actual copy to/from the external device/system, 
you may as well take the simple approach, using "packed" pragma or 
modifier, testing to make sure all is well on each system. 

Brendan