Accessing struct byte by byte

[jefft]

Hello,

I have seen several threads on the forum addressing this same problem, but none of their solutions seem to work for me. I have a simple struct that I would like to access byte by byte (for the purpose of transmitting it). It seems to me that I should just be able to access the fifth byte by

my_struct[4]

but that doesn't work (it always returns 0). It also seems like:

int8 *ptr;
ptr = (int8 *)my_struct;
ptr+=4;
fifth_value = *ptr;

should work, but that doesn't either (also giving 0 as the value).

The specific struct I have been using for testing is:

struct t_t {
int t1;
int t2;
int t3;
int t4;
int t5;
int t6;
};

and I have initialized all of the variables in the struct to 1.

Thanks!

[PCM programmer]

Use a union of your struct and a byte array. See below.

The following program displays this on the terminal screen.
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6