RE: while trying to learn pack

2008-07-28 Thread Bob McConnell
From: Richard Lee >John W. Krahn wrote: >> Richard Lee wrote: >>> I am begining to read bit of low level(assembly) book to just gain >>> some knoweldge on inner workings of memory. >>> >>> My quesiton is, if machine is 32 bit, even if it's accessing string >>> 'A', it will have to fetch 32 bit (i

Re: while trying to learn pack

2008-07-26 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard Lee wrote: Just one more question on the topic, I am trying to understand how it works in binary world. So, If let's say I take a pcap file. I am assuming here that ethereal/wireshark will take binaries on the wire and then decoding it based on pcap standard(? hex? ) and then present t

Re: while trying to learn pack

2008-07-26 Thread Richard Lee
John W. Krahn wrote: Richard Lee wrote: I am begining to read bit of low level(assembly) book to just gain some knoweldge on inner workings of memory. My quesiton is, if machine is 32 bit, even if it's accessing string 'A', it will have to fetch 32 bit (instead of 8 bit that requires to make

Re: while trying to learn pack

2008-07-26 Thread Richard Lee
John W. Krahn wrote: Richard Lee wrote: I am begining to read bit of low level(assembly) book to just gain some knoweldge on inner workings of memory. My quesiton is, if machine is 32 bit, even if it's accessing string 'A', it will have to fetch 32 bit (instead of 8 bit that requires to make

Re: while trying to learn pack

2008-07-25 Thread John W. Krahn
Richard Lee wrote: I am begining to read bit of low level(assembly) book to just gain some knoweldge on inner workings of memory. My quesiton is, if machine is 32 bit, even if it's accessing string 'A', it will have to fetch 32 bit (instead of 8 bit that requires to make that letter A ) ? I

Re: while trying to learn pack

2008-07-25 Thread Rob Dixon
Richard Lee wrote: > > I am begining to read bit of low level(assembly) book to just gain some > knoweldge on inner workings of memory. > > My quesiton is, if machine is 32 bit, even if it's accessing string 'A', > it will have to fetch 32 bit (instead of 8 bit that requires to make > that lett