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diff --git a/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex b/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex index 5b4a9aa..280fe55 100644 --- a/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex +++ b/Doc/lib/libstruct.tex @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ and Python values should be obvious given their types: \lineiii{d}{double}{float} \end{tableiii} -A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count; e.g. +A format character may be preceded by an integral repeat count; e.g.\ the format string \code{'4h'} means exactly the same as \code{'hhhh'}. C numbers are represented in the machine's native format and byte @@ -66,10 +66,10 @@ calcsize('hhl') == 8 Hint: to align the end of a structure to the alignment requirement of a particular type, end the format with the code for that type with a -repeat count of zero, e.g. the format \code{'llh0l'} specifies two +repeat count of zero, e.g.\ the format \code{'llh0l'} specifies two pad bytes at the end, assuming longs are aligned on 4-byte boundaries. -(More format characters are planned, e.g. \code{'s'} for character +(More format characters are planned, e.g.\ \code{'s'} for character arrays, upper case for unsigned variants, and a way to specify the byte order, which is useful for [de]constructing network packets and reading/writing portable binary file formats like TIFF and AIFF.) |