Re: Utilty for parsing raw data into C structures

From: Måns Rullgård (mru_at_mru.ath.cx)
Date: 09/30/04 

Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:41:51 +0200

"Nils O. Selåsdal" <NOS@Utel.no> writes:

> Pat Ford wrote:
>> "Karthik K R" <shukart1@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>> news:44bd5fac.0409290606.69a9d264@posting.google.com...
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I need some help on parsing data into C structures and then printing
>>>them.

I wrote such a program once. What made it difficult was that it had
to be done in Java (choice of my employer, not mine).

> Depending what's the structure of the data is in
> }RefHeaderType __attribute__((__packed__));
> might be needed when mapping data directly to C structures.

If the file was created by dumping C structs, it should be sufficient
to use the same definition when reading it, if the code is compiled
for a machine with the same endianness and alignment constraints as
whatever generated the file. If the machines are different, things
start getting more difficult. 

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@mru.ath.cx

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