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| author | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2013-03-09 13:54:32 (GMT) |
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| committer | Eli Bendersky <eliben@gmail.com> | 2013-03-09 13:54:32 (GMT) |
| commit | c2d90fb3ec648cb84db9ed037c734e574e3655ae (patch) | |
| tree | 0c743c7f3eed6fd2590931cfe2da414a0da52e9f | |
| parent | 98281cef7d1767280e5f9fbd7e504b966ec2a629 (diff) | |
| parent | 490cf4472ec1d5ce70f7e4817b47c392f22d579c (diff) | |
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Add warning in ctypes documentation for #16575 and #16576
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diff --git a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst index 9212d34..5f5a512 100644 --- a/Doc/library/ctypes.rst +++ b/Doc/library/ctypes.rst @@ -608,6 +608,13 @@ for debugging because they can provide useful information:: .. _ctypes-structureunion-alignment-byte-order: +.. warning:: + + :mod:`ctypes` does not support passing unions or structures with bit-fields + to functions by value. While this may work on 32-bit x86, it's not + guaranteed by the library to work in the general case. Unions and + structures with bit-fields should always be passed to functions by pointer. + Structure/union alignment and byte order ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |