[gmpi] Re: GMPI SDK snapshot online

On Sun, Apr 17, 2005 at 07:41:54PM -0500, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> This is probably a stupid question, but why define the GUID this way?
> 
> /*
>  * Globally Unique Identifier
>  *
>  * This is the established layout for a GUID.
>  */
> struct GMPI_Guid {
>       uint32_t data1;
>       uint16_t data2;
>       uint16_t data3;
>       unsigned char data4[8];
> };
> 
> Why not just a single `unsigned char data[16]'?

I have no idea - all the code I could find on the web did it this way,
which does not even correspond to the standard printed notation.  For fear
of horking byte-ordering, I stuck with what I saw in use :)

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