Heyho, since I did not find any suckless project regarding this issue, I would like to ask you guys for some feedback:
unsigned char *msg; size_t msg_size; struct foo *msg_data; struct bar *msg_signature; msg_size = sizeof(unsigned char) // op + sizeof(struct foo) // data + sizeof(struct bar) // signature msg = malloc(msg_size); *msg = MSG_OP_SIGNED_DATA; msg_data = (struct foo *)(msg + 1); msg_data->field0 = bla; msg_data->field1 = blub; msg_signature = (struct bar *)(msg_data + 1); create_signature(msg, msg_signature); sendmsg(msg); free(msg); I feel it is pretty good already compared to other message packing I've seen, but do you know a way to make it suck even less? --Markus