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

[Jeremy Leonard]

>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.
>*YES*, there is just "empty" space in between.
>

So it's like cluster size on a disk. 4k cluster size, 2k file=4k used on
disk?

>That's "byte alignment" at work.
>
>> state machines?
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>I won't go there.  Such classes are often dreaded, but quite necessary
>(and the knowledge underutilized)  ;-p
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