Re: Wire format examples

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]> Fri, 18 Oct 2024 10:00:03 +1300
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Organization Geek Central
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:17:17 -0400, Robert Middleton wrote:

> ... the fact that you can have nested objects and varied lengths of
> data is what really trips me up.

And note that objects requiring greater alignment can occur inside
parent objects with lesser alignment requirements. So the only way to
know where the padding should be placed is to look at the message as a
whole.