How to covert a structure to a byte array in C? [duplicate]

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I am looking for converting a structure to byte array in C and i was confused in doing that.Please show me a right way in achieving that. Thanks in advance.

i have a simple structure populated with integers, floats and one more struct inside, i need that structure to be converted in to a byte array which to be used in jni — venkatesh
– venkatesh, Commented May 11, 2011 at 5:25

Mario The Spoon · Accepted Answer · 2011-05-11 04:54:21Z

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A structure is a byte array. it starts at &mystruct and has the length of sizeof(mystruct_type) bytes.

If the binaries are to long or do contain gaps, check the #pragma pack settings.

hth

Maro

answered May 11, 2011 at 4:54

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venkatesh Over a year ago

Mario, can u give me an example of that

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