Re: Wire format examples

Link Dupont <[email protected]> Thu, 17 Oct 2024 21:09:31 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <[email protected]>

> On Oct 17, 2024, at 17:00, Lawrence D'Oliveiro =
<ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]> wrote:
>=20
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2024 11:17:17 -0400, Robert Middleton wrote:
>=20
>> ... the fact that you can have nested objects and varied lengths of
>> data is what really trips me up.
>=20
> 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.

In my exploration so far, this is by far the most opaque element of the =
whole marshaling format to me. I haven=E2=80=99t found a pattern yet =
that I can use to figure out when and where to pad the data buffer.=