David, > Then I could just check the field type, and increment the byte > counter by the appropriate amount (i.e. if the java field type is > int, then I know the width in the passed structure is 4 bytes, etc).
As Chuck points out, this is unlikely to work. If the JIT for the platform decides to word-align your fields, and a word isn't 4-bytes long, you will get the wrong data. There's probably no good way to do this without a lot of trial and error followed by luck and an environment that never changes. At any rate, you'd better document the heck out of the whole thing ;) -chris
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