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.

Answer 1

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