Question

in a C program I have an long* that I want to serialize (thus converting to chars). A long doesn’t fit in a single char, and the size varies depending of the processor (can be 4 bytes or 8 bytes).

Theres a good way to make the serialization and de-serialization?

Answer 1

long * longs;  // ...  int numChars = numLongs * sizeof(long); char* longsAsChars = (char*) longs; char* chars = malloc(numChars); memcpy(chars, longsAsChars, numChars);