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From: Antonio Quartulli <antonio@meshcoding.com>
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 13:50:46 +0100

> This may work with the structures I reported in a previous email, but
> it is not a good solution for us because we have other more complex
> substructs that cannot be packed that way.
> 
> I think we will simply duplicate the members and avoid substructs in
> our packets.

I would strongly suggest just making everything a multiple of 4 bytes in
size.