[KLUG Hardware] Re: Join "HARDWARE" for "endian/alignment" -- word size != byte alignment, state machines ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

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On Thu, 2003-01-16 at 12:33, Jeremy Leonard wrote:
> Right. I assumed it was for every variable in the structure. How long is
> this Integer, Double, string, etc.

No, still not the same thing.

The first integer in a structure might be only 2 bytes, but it's might
not be another 2 (or even 6!) bytes until you hit the next field.=20
*YES*, there is just "empty" space in between.

That's "byte alignment" at work.

> state machines?

I won't go there.  Such classes are often dreaded, but quite necessary
(and the knowledge underutilized)  ;-p


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