For efficiency reasons many CPUs require particular primitive data
types (integers/pointers of various sizes) to be placed in memory at
particular boundaries. For example, shorts (H above, usually two bytes
and probably always so in the struct module) are often required to be
on even
On Jun 26, 12:38 pm, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 26, 9:00 am, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone explain to me why
struct.pack('HB',1,2) gives 3 bytes, whereas struct.pack('BH',1,2)
gives
Can anyone explain to me why
struct.pack('HB',1,2) gives 3 bytes, whereas struct.pack('BH',1,2)
gives 4 bytes?
-Steven
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On Jun 26, 9:00 am, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone explain to me why
struct.pack('HB',1,2) gives 3 bytes, whereas struct.pack('BH',1,2)
gives 4 bytes?
Alignment -- read the manual.
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On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jun 26, 9:00 am, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone explain to me why
struct.pack('HB',1,2) gives 3 bytes, whereas struct.pack('BH',1,2)
gives 4 bytes?
Alignment -- read the manual.
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En Wed, 25 Jun 2008 23:38:54 -0300, Steven Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] escribi�:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Jun 26, 9:00 am, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone explain to me why
struct.pack('HB',1,2) gives 3 bytes, whereas
On 25Jun2008 22:38, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 7:03 PM, John Machin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| On Jun 26, 9:00 am, Steven Clark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Can anyone explain to me why
| struct.pack('HB',1,2) gives 3 bytes, whereas struct.pack('BH',1,2)
|
