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authorLeonardo Alt <leo@ethereum.org>2018-09-18 03:45:00 +0800
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Explaining how Solidity types map to ABI types
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.. note::
Solidity supports all the types presented above with the same names with the exception of tuples. The ABI tuple type is utilised for encoding Solidity ``structs``.
+Mapping Solidity to ABI types
+-----------------------------
+The following table shows on the left column Solidity types that are not part of the ABI,
+and on the right column the ABI type that they map to.
+
++-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+| Solidity | ABI |
++===============================+=============================================================================+
+|:ref:`address payable<address>`|``address`` |
++-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|:ref:`contract<contracts>` |``address`` |
++-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+|:ref:`enum<enums>` |smallest ``uint`` type that is large enough to hold all values |
+| | |
+| |For example, an ``enum`` of 255 values or less is mapped to ``uint8`` and |
+| |an ``enum`` of 256 values is mapped to ``uint16``. |
++-------------------------------+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+
+
Formal Specification of the Encoding
====================================