Richard Brodie wrote:
> "pjcoup" <pjc...@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>
>
>> I would have expected calcsize('BhhhhB') to be either 10 or 12
>> (padding), but 11? Is there a simple explanation of what is going
>> on here?
>
> The purpose of the padding is to align the words 'naturally'.
> That is, when reading two bytes, to start at an even number.
>
> B X B h1
> h1 h1 h1 h2
> h2 h2 h2 h3
> h3 h3 h3 h4
> h4 h4 h4 B
> B Y
>
> The padding at X lines up h1-h4. There isn't any point
> putting padding at Y.
I would have expected "native size and alignment" (as stated in the
documentation) to mean that I can read the output of struct.pack("bhhhhb")
into a C
struct {
char a;
short b1, b2, b3, b4;
char c
}
but that has a size of 12 bytes on my 64 bit Ubuntu.
Peter
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