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[Reply #15 on:]

Thanks a lot for the info. Gave me a lot of good ideas, mostly about the efficiency of unions.


RobertEagle

[Reply #16 on:]

The union method is becoming very popular, avoids nasty casts with pointers and provides a nice OO syntax.

Here is a type safe method.

Code:

template< typename _Type > union Serializer{
  _Type  value;
  byte    data[ sizeof( _Type ) ];
};

//You would use like
class itg3200
{
private:
Serializer< int > output[3];
protected:
...

[Reply #17 on:]

If you wanted to be really clever, you could do this:

If you don't actually need to access the data as an integer, you could use a struct rather than a union.

[Reply #18 on:]

And it proves that people are just subjective

Speak for yourself!