Array length and element padding.

[Jakub Piotr Cłapa]

Havoc Pennington wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-08-10 at 13:00 +0200, Jakub Piotr Cłapa wrote:
> 
>>The padding of the first element is not counted to the length of the 
>>whole array...
>>
>>I really don't care much if it's a mistake or if it should be like this 
>>but after spending whole night trying to find why the messages raise 
>>error code 35 in the bus I think it would be really cool to mention it 
>>somewhere in the specification... ;-)
> 
> It is in there:
> 
>         A <literal>UINT32</literal> giving the length of the array data
> in bytes, followed by 
>                   alignment padding to the alignment boundary of the
> array element type, 
>                   followed by each array element. The array length is
> from the 
>                   end of the alignment padding to the end of the last
> element,
>                   i.e. it does not include the padding after the length,
>                   or any padding after the last element.
>                   Arrays have a maximum length defined to be 2 to the
> 26th power or
>                   67108864. Implementations must not send or accept
> arrays exceeding this
>                   length.

So it's only me. :( I've read it several times and still... Whatever, 
thanks. (and sorry for the rant) :)

>>Btw. The AddMatch method is also not documented, isn't it?
> 
> It is not. There's some documentation in the Doxygen docs though and a
> TODO note to document it in the spec.

Maybe I could think about writing about it but only after Google SoC ends...

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Regards,
Jakub Piotr Cłapa