explanation needed on assigning a struct member to an another structure ...

Guys,

Code:

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(slaveIdent*) (SPIBuff.data);

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Could not able to figure out how i am able to assign a struct member to an another structure in the main function... can someone explain the above declaration in words....

Full code

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h> // for strcmp()
#include <stdbool.h> // C99 feature
typedef struct {
    char    neuron_id [15];
    char id_string [15];
} slaveIdent;
typedef struct {
    char transLen;
    int transType;
    char data[32];
} sSpiBuf;

/* The actual transaction buffer                                    */
sSpiBuf  SPIBuff;

int main(void)
{

(slaveIdent*) (SPIBuff.data);

return 0;
}

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I stripped the code ... actually they are using such declaration in memcpy...as below

Code:

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memcpy(((slaveIdent *)SPIBuff.data)->id_string,idstr,15);

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Please shed some light....

Thanks n regards
max

It basically allows you to pretend that you have this.

Code:

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typedef struct {
    char    neuron_id [15];
    char id_string [15];
} slaveIdent;
typedef struct {
    char transLen;
    int transType;
    // char data[32];
    slaveIdent data;
} sSpiBuf;

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SPIBuff.data (being an array) is equivalent to &SPIBuff.data[0]
Knowing that it is a pointer, then (slaveIdent *) is a cast to another pointer type.

Hi salem, Thank you for the response.... can you please shed some more light.. still i got few questions....

Q1)
if this the case

Code:

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typedef struct {
    char transLen;
    int transType;
    // char data[32];
    slaveIdent data;
} sSpiBuf;

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then why doesnt this work printf("content : %s",SPIBuff.data->neuron_id); what i mean is that i am not able to print individual members .
q2)
what i understood from this (slaveIdent *) is that the data stored in SPIBuff.data is pointed by some random slaveIdent pointer..... is it so..??

Code:

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#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h> // for strcmp()
#include <stdbool.h> // C99 feature
typedef struct {
    char    neuron_id [15];
    char id_string [15];
} slaveIdent;
typedef struct {
    char transLen;
    int transType;
    char data[32];
} sSpiBuf;

/* The actual transaction buffer                                    */
sSpiBuf  SPIBuff;

int main(void)
{
char  nd[15] = "jack as a cat";
 char  idstr[15] = "sky is blue";
memcpy(((slaveIdent *)SPIBuff.data)->neuron_id,nd, 15);
memcpy(((slaveIdent *)SPIBuff.data)->id_string,idstr, 15);
printf("content : %s",SPIBuff.data);

return 0;
}

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It works perfectly. But to print a string using %s, the char array is expected to terminate with a nul. You should therefore do

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SPIBuff.data[30] = '\0';

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after the memcpy statements.

> what i understood from this (slaveIdent *) is that the data stored in SPIBuff.data is pointed by some random slaveIdent pointer..... is it so..??

No. You cast one data type to another. There is no new pointer created. The compiler understands the named members of the cast structure as offsets to use with the SPIBuff.data area.