[sdiy] Pointers in C

[Jay Vaughan]

Is the goal sensible code that's easy to understand, or portability?  In C these two concepts don't always align, pun intended.  :)

;
--
seclorum 

On Jan 2, 2012, at 5:28, Magnus Danielson <magnus at rubidium.dyndns.org> wrote:

> On 12/31/2011 06:19 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
>> Plus a union with bit field aliases is almost self documenting .. No thorny&/&&  bugs to write.
> 
> Last time I checked, bit fields in structs are not guaranteed to be interpreted in the same way for various architectures. You can get it to do "the right thing" for a particular architecture, but not necesserilly outside of that scope.
> 
> So, it's a two-edged sword.
> 
> Bit-masks, shift constants etc. is unfortunatly the only way to do portable stuff to match with protocols and hardware stuff.
> 
> Cheers,
> Magnus
> _______________________________________________
> Synth-diy mailing list
> Synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
> http://dropmix.xs4all.nl/mailman/listinfo/synth-diy