[Mono-dev] Unsafe struct array reading

[Miguel de Icaza]

Hello,

   Something like this:

   unsafe {
	byte [] copy = new byte [8192];

	fixed (byte *p = (byte *) (& struct [0])){
		for (int i = 0; i < 8192; i++
			copy [i] = p [i];
	}

	filestream.Write (copy, 256);
   }


> Great! 
> 
> Now, could you share some code about how to do it? :-P
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> pablo
> 
> Miguel de Icaza wrote: 
> > Hello,
> > 
> >   
> > > I'm looking for a way to read and write array of structs from a file
> > > (byte array).
> > >     
> > 
> > If you use the proper packing and do not care about breaking across
> > endian systems, you can always just write the entire array of structures
> > out and read them back in using unsafe pointers.
> > 
> > miguel
> > 
> > 
> >