Right, but isn't the struct definition equivalent in line count and effort compared to some typedefs and perhaps a handful of trivial-to-inspect oneline helper functions?
Regarding the UI8, don't you have to get your version's struct data member type correct to the exact same degree as a typedef in my suggestion?
Regarding the UI8, don't you have to get your version's struct data member type correct to the exact same degree as a typedef in my suggestion?