From 29d40ad42af1e7168ec3ea077a2bcfb71c68dc60 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: chriseth Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2018 12:19:19 +0100 Subject: Clarify padding direction. --- docs/abi-spec.rst | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/abi-spec.rst') diff --git a/docs/abi-spec.rst b/docs/abi-spec.rst index f249bbcd..58b88a07 100644 --- a/docs/abi-spec.rst +++ b/docs/abi-spec.rst @@ -155,15 +155,15 @@ on the type of ``X`` being ``enc(X) = enc(enc_utf8(X))``, i.e. ``X`` is utf-8 encoded and this value is interpreted as of ``bytes`` type and encoded further. Note that the length used in this subsequent encoding is the number of bytes of the utf-8 encoded string, not its number of characters. -- ``uint``: ``enc(X)`` is the big-endian encoding of ``X``, padded on the higher-order (left) side with zero-bytes such that the length is a multiple of 32 bytes. +- ``uint``: ``enc(X)`` is the big-endian encoding of ``X``, padded on the higher-order (left) side with zero-bytes such that the length is 32 bytes. - ``address``: as in the ``uint160`` case -- ``int``: ``enc(X)`` is the big-endian two's complement encoding of ``X``, padded on the higher-order (left) side with ``0xff`` for negative ``X`` and with zero bytes for positive ``X`` such that the length is a multiple of 32 bytes. +- ``int``: ``enc(X)`` is the big-endian two's complement encoding of ``X``, padded on the higher-order (left) side with ``0xff`` for negative ``X`` and with zero bytes for positive ``X`` such that the length is 32 bytes. - ``bool``: as in the ``uint8`` case, where ``1`` is used for ``true`` and ``0`` for ``false`` - ``fixedx``: ``enc(X)`` is ``enc(X * 10**N)`` where ``X * 10**N`` is interpreted as a ``int256``. - ``fixed``: as in the ``fixed128x19`` case - ``ufixedx``: ``enc(X)`` is ``enc(X * 10**N)`` where ``X * 10**N`` is interpreted as a ``uint256``. - ``ufixed``: as in the ``ufixed128x19`` case -- ``bytes``: ``enc(X)`` is the sequence of bytes in ``X`` padded with zero-bytes to a length of 32. +- ``bytes``: ``enc(X)`` is the sequence of bytes in ``X`` padded with zero-bytes on the _right_ to a length of 32. Note that for any ``X``, ``len(enc(X))`` is a multiple of 32. -- cgit v1.2.3