Re: [avr-gcc-list] External EEPROM verses internal EEPROM data handling

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Mon, 4 May 2009, Bob Paddock wrote:
> >                uint16_t voltage[24];   // adc counts of 24 channels
> > in an array } ED;           // total data = 58 bytes
>
> Because of issues of structure packing it is better to define
> structure items from
> the largest to the smallest, ie. uint16_t should be first.  This is
> more important
> on 32bit processors and up than on the 8bit AVRs.

You could just mark the struct as packed, eg..
typedef struct eventdata {
 ...
} __attribute__ ((packed)) ED;

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