Re: A Library for Converting Data to and from C Structs for Lua

["James K. Lowden" <jklowden%schemamania.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2013 09:07:52 +0100
Marc Balmer <marc%msys.ch@localhost> wrote:

> After discussion we lneto@ and others we realised that there are
> several such libraries around, and that I as well as lneto@ wrote
> one.  SO we decided to merge our works and have a library that allows
> to encode/decode structured binary data in one call (my work) and that
> allows to access individual fields as well (lneto@'s work).

How do you deal with the usual issues of alignment and endianism?  

(BTW, I'm curious what unstructured binary data might be.)

--jkl