Re: Confusing illustration for 3.2.11

Henrik Frystyk Nielsen <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Aug 2002 09:53:41 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.windows.devel.dime
Message-ID <79107D208BA38C45A4E45F62673A434D08C4F5B1@red-msg-07.redmond.corp.microsoft.com>
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!)