using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Runtime.InteropServices;

using System.Text;

namespace MLAPI.Serialization

{

/// <summary>

/// A struct with a explicit memory layout. The struct has 4 fields. float,uint,double and ulong.

/// Every field has the same starting point in memory. If you insert a float value, it can be extracted as a uint.

/// This is to allow for lockless and garbage free conversion from float to uint and double to ulong.

/// This allows for VarInt encoding and other integer encodings.

/// </summary>

[StructLayout(LayoutKind.Explicit)]

internal struct UIntFloat

{

[FieldOffset(0)]

public float floatValue;

[FieldOffset(0)]

public uint uintValue;

[FieldOffset(0)]

public double doubleValue;

[FieldOffset(0)]

public ulong ulongValue;

}

}