John W. Krahn wrote:
Richard Lee wrote:
I am begining to read bit of low level(assembly) book to just gain
some knoweldge on inner workings of memory.
My quesiton is, if machine is 32 bit, even if it's accessing string
'A', it will have to fetch 32 bit (instead of 8 bit that requires to
make that letter A ) ?
It depends on the CPU. An Intel compatible CPU has instructions to
access 8 bit values from memory but some CPUs can only access 32 bit
aligned data.
I know this is not a mailing list for this but i figure since it's
closely related to pack, i thought someone would clarify for me.
It is not really related to pack() as pack() is a high level function
that can hide the details of the CPUs addressing problems.
I am reading "step by step assembly language"... I am not sure i will
read the whole thing but i just want to get better inner working of
memory as my c book didn't do enough justice.
John
thanks guys
Just one more question on the topic,
I am trying to understand how it works in binary world.
So, If let's say I take a pcap file. I am assuming here that
ethereal/wireshark will take binaries on the wire and then decoding it
based on pcap standard(? hex? ) and then present them in ascci ?
so which means in order to unpack pcap file, I have to know how ethereal
pack on their own.. is this something similar to what happens when pcap
file gets created?
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