Compact structs and byte-stringification

2007-02-27 Thread Geoffrey Broadwell
How do you specify that you want to byte-stringify a compact struct, rather than normal stringify it? Does the byte-stringified version include internal and/or trailing alignment padding? How do you specify the other choices? Whether or not trailing padding is included when byte-stringifying a

Re: Compact structs and byte-stringification

2007-02-27 Thread Larry Wall
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 06:54:50AM -0800, Geoffrey Broadwell wrote: : How do you specify that you want to byte-stringify a compact struct, : rather than normal stringify it? Coerce to a buffer type rather than using ~. : Does the byte-stringified version include internal and/or trailing :