Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
I think this is expected behaviour: the key point is that structs can
include padding bytes. From the documentation:
"By default, C numbers are represented in the machine’s native format and
byte order, and properly aligned by skipping pad bytes if necessary
(according to the rules used by the C compiler)."
'Native' struct formats include padding, while 'standard' formats don't.
So a native struct with format 'BI' has one byte for the 'B', followed by
3 padding bytes, followed by four bytes for the 'I'. This exactly matches
the way a C struct of the form {char c; int x;} would be organized in
memory on that machine.
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assignee: -> marketdickinson
nosy: +marketdickinson
resolution: -> works for me
status: open -> closed
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