What is best way to read and interpret binary files?

[Neia Neutuladh]

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 14:32:55 -0800, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> Standard caveats about byte order and alignment.
> 
> Alignment shouldn't be a problem, since local variables should already
> be properly aligned.

Right, and the IO layer probably doesn't need to read to aligned memory 
anyway.

Struct fields, however, need to have the same relative alignment as the 
file.