Here is a quick explanation of bytes, megabytes, and so on, and some estimates of the storage requirements of various sorts of information. |
All data in the payloads is scrambled, but framing bytes in the overhead consist of fixed data patterns and thus are not scrambled. |
Storage is measured in bytes, one byte containing eight bits, and representing storage for one character in European alphabets. |
The store is misaligned across two cache lines such that the upper eight bytes span a cache line boundary. |
By default, the result of packing a given C struct includes pad bytes in order to maintain proper alignment for the C types involved. |
This means you could write up to 36 bytes to that memory block without overwriting other blocks. |