🚀 go-pugleaf

i have an application where i need to send C structs, with BSD socket
interface's read() and write() routines, between heterogenous machine
architectures. the structs are quite simple containing only char arrays
and integers e.g.

	struct data {
		char somestring[9];
		int status;
		int foo;
		char otherstring[5];
	};


so, my question is how do i accomplish sending this struct over the
network, to a machine with different architecture? when i do a write()
does the system send everything in the struct, including padding fields,
over the network? i assume i can rely on the C compiler to preserve the
order of the struct members. but, i probably can't rely on int member
fields being of certain length (at least not on all platforms). can i
assume something about the paddings between members? for example, can i
assume that if the char arrays lengths are multiples of 4, there will be
no padding fields in most architecture?


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