On Saturday 16 July 2011 21:53:55 Albert-Jan Roskam wrote: > 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...? then wrote: > Got it already, I think. The word boundary of one chunk of information (in > my case 8 bytes) is aligned in the computer's memory such that the > boundary's address is a power of two.
Sorry to be slow. Blame virtually no sleep last night ;-( But even were the power of two bit correct (and I see subsequently that it is not), how is 18 a power of two? Lisi _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
