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
: alignment padding? How do you specify the other choices?
By default it's as like C as possible. Other choices would have to act
something like pack templates and be hung on some appropriate declaration.
: Whether or not trailing padding is included when byte-stringifying a
: single compact struct, is the choice the same when byte-stringifying an
: array of same? In other words, are you guaranteed that the
: byte-stringify of an array of compact structs is merely the
: concatenation of the byte-stringification of each struct?
Yes.
Larry
