Re: Confusing illustration for 3.2.11
Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:53:41 -0700
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Hmm, given that the option elements all are part of the OPTIONS field which *is* padded to 4 octet alignment, I think we have the padding we need to ensure alignment. Any additional padding between individual option elements doesn't have any impact on the overall parsing of a DIME record. This differ from how the other fields work and because the option elements are special in this regard, I think it makes sense not to require individual padding. Henrik >I'm not complaining, but this seems rather inconsistent. We=20 >were careful to make sure there was padding everywhere else,=20 >but now we don't care whether the individual option elements=20 >are padded. Seems odd. We should have padded everywhere or=20 >nowhere. (Can't imagine how I missed this >before!)