From taylor@rhino.llnl.gov Wed Dec 6 13:23 EST 2000

I think a more portable solution is to just make it all an if statement. I'm not comfortable with presuming that floats are always 4 bytes.

I agree -- I also had the thought of changing to an if statement after I sent my mail. Much better than the switch since it can't break.

I've thrown in the int and float cases to make sure we cover every machine that may be out there.

I suspect that if float is 8 bytes then int will be too. Just char, short, float, and double should suffice. If the 4-byte version is missing it will just fall back on the default (slower but otherwise OK), and if the C compiler doesn't support shorter data items then probably the user won't be using them anyway... Rick White