Reversing typecast in C

Hey everyone, I would really appreciate your help as I am struggling on a (seems to be silly) question. I am working on communication between two heterogenous systems. Specifically one of them is high-level programmed through simulink while the second is completely implemented in C. Communication happens over UDP packers through the Realtime UDP that only accepts bytestreams as its input. In order to transmit double values from matlab to C, simulinks converts the double value to an array of an uint8 using typecast with something like

v = typecast(5.57, 'uint8').

My question is, how I should go back to the original double value, in native C code, once the uint8 array has been received from the second system?

I already tried to generated a kindofcode that reverts typecast applying

typecast(received, 'double')

using codegen. It didn't work, obviously :)

Thank you so much, Best Luca

[James Tursa]

Could you be more specific about what is not working? E.g., this seems to work just fine

v = typecast(5.57, 'uint8')
v =
   72  225  122   20  174   71   22   64
>> typecast(v, 'double') 
ans =
    5.5700

Answer 1

[Guillaume]

As James says, in matlab, and so for codegen I guess, it is indeed

typecast(uint8values, 'double');

In plain C, it's also just a basic cast

char* buffer = yourudpreadfunction;
double* values = (double*) buffer;

One thing to watch out for though, and this may be the cause for your didn't work is that I believe that by default matlab transmits values in udp packets in big endian ordering, so you may nee to reverse the order of the bytes. In matlab:

swapbytes(typecast(uint8values, 'double');

In C, your library may provide a <swapbytes.h> header.

Answer 2

[Luca Maria Castiglione]

Thank you guys. I solved the issue! I leave a reference for the solution in case someone needs Extract data from uint8 double

best

Luca