Field component interleave modes

SAF_Interleave is a collection of related C preprocessor symbols defined in saf.h.

Synopsis:

SAF_BLOCKED: An alias for SAF__INTERLEAVE_COMPONENT.

SAF_INTERLEAVED: An alias for SAF__INTERLEAVE_VECTOR.

Description: When fields have multiple components, the components can be stored in the field’s blob in different ways relative to each other. For example, in a 3D coordinate field, we will have 3 components for the x, y and z components of each coordinate. These can be stored as three different component fields or as a single composite field. If they are stored as a single composite field, they may be stored interleaved or non-interleaved.

The SAF__INTERLEAVE_``* constants are defined by the ``ss_interleave_t enumeration type. In addition we define aliases SAF__BLOCKED and SAF__INTERLEAVED.

See Also:

• Datatypes: Introduction for current chapter