Hi,

On 24/04/2020 15:26, Jürgen Groß wrote:
+```
+    0       1       2       3       4       5       6       7    octet
++-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+-------+
+| type                          | len                           |
++-------------------------------+-------------------------------+
+| body
+...
+|       | padding (0 to 7 octets)                               |
++-------+-------------------------------------------------------+
+```
+
+NOTE: padding octets here and in all subsequent format specifications must be
+      zero, unless stated otherwise.

What about: "... are written as zero and should be ignored on read."

I would rather not say "ignored" because it doesn't allow us to extend the record if needed in a safe way. The read side should abort if it sees an other value than 0 in the padding.

Cheers,

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Julien Grall

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