Re: [boost] Access to unaligned (packed) structs

Zara wrote:

class foo { private: unsigned char internals[5]; public: char a() {return internals[0];} int b() { // select code block depending on your endianness unsigned int n=(a[0]<<24)|(a[1]<<16]|(a[2]<<8)|a[3]; unsigned int n=(a[3]<<24)|(a[2]<<16]|(a[1]<<8)|a[0]; return static_cast<int>(n); } };

Hmm, I tried the following: template<class T> struct packed { unsigned char data[sizeof(T)]; operator T&() const { return static_cast<T>(*data); } } struct foobar { packed<char> a; packed<int> b; } which seems to work by try. But is this standard conformant usage? (I need this only for POD's) Roland aka speedsnail