New to the forum and have already a question >.<

[Rykaerdoe]

First of all,

Hi

A little introduction, (hope its not totally out of topic), i am a student at Lisbon at the Faculty of Science of the University of Lisbon, takin a degree in software engeneering. I am 22, and thats about it :P

Now for the lame question, and yes it must be lame eh:

I am doing a server/client in C, using TCP, now i know i cant send directly C structs cause of the architecture alignment resctrictions (the pads and all). After some search i came along the way to resolve this, it was:

1) rearrange structure members;
2) Serialize structures by-member.

The big question (and yes i am kinda noobies in C (and the rest for that matter)), how do i do this?

by no mean i want a sample of code or anything, but if someone could explain how to do this.

Hope not to bother
Rykaerdoe <(^.^<) <--- lol taken from FFXI
sigh - edited cause of grammar lol

[Salem]

       #include <netinet/in.h>
       uint32_t htonl(uint32_t hostlong);
       uint16_t htons(uint16_t hostshort);
       uint32_t ntohl(uint32_t netlong);
       uint16_t ntohs(uint16_t netshort);

Take each member of the structure, use the appropriate host-to-network function, send the result over the network, use the appropriate network-to-host function at the other end.

Or take each member of the structure and format according to these rules
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1014.html

Or sprintf() each member of the structure into a string, send the string, then sscanf() at the receiver to recover the data.

Or ....

[Rykaerdoe]

Thank you so much >.<
will post how it goes