06-07-2009
If I understood this correctly you are getting messages from an embedded device presumable in some kind of encoded struct but you are not actually coding on/for the embedded device.
If you are post-processing this on an "normal" PC you should just be decoding the messages and using the decoded content to do your processing. For example if you have an 8 bit float of some kind coming out from the device you would convert that and use a standard 32 bit float on your pc and ignore the fact that the data type is much bigger than you actually need.
Likewise is you need to send the information back to the device, you would need to reencode the message into a sequence of bytes and send that.
Adapting/converting the messages rather than reimplmenting the basic functionality will give you much better mileage.
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platform(n) Tcl Bundled Packages platform(n)
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NAME
platform - System identification support code and utilities
SYNOPSIS
package require platform ?1.0.4?
platform::generic
platform::identify
platform::patterns identifier
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DESCRIPTION
The platform package provides several utility commands useful for the identification of the architecture of a machine running Tcl.
Whilst Tcl provides the tcl_platform array for identifying the current architecture (in particular, the platform and machine elements) this
is not always sufficient. This is because (on Unix machines) tcl_platform reflects the values returned by the uname command and these are
not standardized across platforms and architectures. In addition, on at least one platform (AIX) the tcl_platform(machine) contains the CPU
serial number.
Consequently, individual applications need to manipulate the values in tcl_platform (along with the output of system specific utilities) -
which is both inconvenient for developers, and introduces the potential for inconsistencies in identifying architectures and in naming con-
ventions.
The platform package prevents such fragmentation - i.e., it establishes a standard naming convention for architectures running Tcl and
makes it more convenient for developers to identify the current architecture a Tcl program is running on.
COMMANDS
platform::identify
This command returns an identifier describing the platform the Tcl core is running on. The returned identifier has the general for-
mat OS-CPU. The OS part of the identifier may contain details like kernel version, libc version, etc., and this information may con-
tain dashes as well. The CPU part will not contain dashes, making the preceding dash the last dash in the result.
platform::generic
This command returns a simplified identifier describing the platform the Tcl core is running on. In contrast to platform::identify
it leaves out details like kernel version, libc version, etc. The returned identifier has the general format OS-CPU.
platform::patterns identifier
This command takes an identifier as returned by platform::identify and returns a list of identifiers describing compatible architec-
tures.
KEYWORDS
operating system, cpu architecture, platform, architecture
platform 1.0.4 platform(n)