>Personaly I rarely bother with using structures in this manner.  They =
can be
>usefull, but one you start messing around with pointers it gets messy =
and
>you might as well access the bytes within the long directly using =
pointers,
>e.g.
>
>void readadc(long *result)
>{
>*(((unsigned char *)result)+0) =3D getbyte();
>*(((unsigned char *)result)+1) =3D getbyte();
>*(((unsigned char *)result)+2) =3D getbyte();
>}
Thanks for that hint - makes things much simpler!
Incidentally is there a similar trick for accessing bytes within
global longs without having to use a union,=20
e.g.=20
long reading;=20

<some twiddlystuff+1> =3D byte1;
=20

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