VB-PB UDT alignment (is this stupid?)

[Doug McDonald]

I fully understand the alignmet issues for UDT's in VB and PB (and others).. But is this a really stupid idea.? What I've done is to open a file in a ram drive, 'Put' my VB UDT and then call PB. PB opens the file and reads it into a byte array and does the fast stuff. No alignment problems!! and as far as i can tell it's faster than passing a pointer of the UDT and "padding" it in PB and lots less work.

Just a thought
Doug

[Tom Hanlin]

This technique is sure to be slower than passing the UDT directly but, of course, the difference may be entirely insignificant for your application. It's a creative solution, though, and it does have the advantage that you can use the same code in both PowerBASIC and VB.

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Tom Hanlin
PowerBASIC Staff