Nested structure

[Psych]

In C you are able to declare a structure union with intelligently defined widths, making byte alignment automatic, however I found no easy way to achieve this in PB unless I define the word pairs in their own named structure

Could we have this?

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Structure WordPair
	StructureUnion
		Structure
			LoWord.w
			HiWord.w
		EndStructure
		Long.l
	EndStructureUnion
EndStructure

Enabling us to access each field with having to qualify the substructure.

[STARGÅTE]

Methode 1:

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Structure LongFields
	Lo.w
	Hi.w
EndStructure

Structure WordPair
	StructureUnion
		LongFields.LongFields
		Long.l
	EndStructureUnion
EndStructure

Define WordPair.WordPair
WordPair\Long = $FF0055AA

Debug Hex(WordPair\LongFields\Lo, #PB_Word)
Debug Hex(WordPair\LongFields\Hi, #PB_Word)

Methode 2:

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Structure WordPair
	StructureUnion
		LongFields.w[0]
		Long.l
	EndStructureUnion
EndStructure

Define WordPair.WordPair
WordPair\Long = $FF0055AA

Debug Hex(WordPair\LongFields[0], #PB_Word)
Debug Hex(WordPair\LongFields[1], #PB_Word)

[Demivec]

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