+ }
+
+ /*
+ * Use `memcpy' to write everything to the buffer, because the pointer
+ * may be unaligned and some architectures, such as SPARC, can't handle
+ * that.
+ */
+ packet_ptr = *ret_buffer;
+ offset = 0;
+ memcpy (packet_ptr + offset, &pkg_ph, sizeof (pkg_ph));
+ offset += sizeof (pkg_ph);
+ memcpy (packet_ptr + offset, &pkg_num_values, sizeof (pkg_num_values));
+ offset += sizeof (pkg_num_values);
+ memcpy (packet_ptr + offset, pkg_values_types, num_values * sizeof (uint8_t));
+ offset += num_values * sizeof (uint8_t);
+ memcpy (packet_ptr + offset, pkg_values, num_values * sizeof (value_t));
+ offset += num_values * sizeof (value_t);
+
+ assert (offset == packet_len);
+
+ *ret_buffer = packet_ptr + packet_len;
+ *ret_buffer_len -= packet_len;
+
+ free (pkg_values_types);
+ free (pkg_values);