[zeromq-dev] c struct as a zmq message

Martin Sustrik sustrik at 250bpm.com
Fri Jan 7 14:21:24 CET 2011


Daniel,

> Is it possible to send a raw C structure via zmq with memcpy?
>
> According to documentation zmq doesn't know anything about the data to
> send except its size, so can I use memcpy to send C structure directly
> or I need to use the sprint/sscanf functions?

You can, but obviously there will be a problem with endianness, data 
type length and structure padding between different systems.

Martin



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