Hello,
What is 'doubleword alignment'? It is used in the following sentence: "Fill up
the buffer with the correctly encoded numeric and string values, taking care of
blank padding and doubleword alignment."
I know that the buffer is comprised of variables of 8-bytes, or multiples
thereof, each. Numeric variables are 8 bytes, char vars are at least 8 bytes.
For example, a 10-byte value is 'ceiled' to 18 bytes. This is done with padding
(spaces, I think). But the aligment part...?
TIA
Cheers!!
Albert-Jan
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