Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] ANSI bitfields

["Gilbert Ramirez Jr." <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As Laurent Deniel said:
> 
> I think this is not a good solution. memcpy'ing the whole struct is 
> preferable to copying each field. We have just to correctly define a
> particular structure. For instance, if you define the igmp structure in
> such a way:
> {
> guint_8  igmp_type;
> guint_8  igmp_code;
> guint_16 igmp_cksum;
> guint_32 igmp_gaddr;
> }
> I don't know any modern C compiler that will do the wrong thing about
> alignment. We have just to define structures in a compiler-independent
> way and to handle any further endianness problem in the code itself rather
> than in the structure definition.

that sounds like a good thing to do, if there are no alignment problems.

--gilbert

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