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1 'c' Count (the type of an enum) |
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2 A count of something. This is not meant to have the range to |
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3 represent an arbitrary integer for the purposes of something like |
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4 cryptography that requires arbitrarily large abstract integers. |
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6 'm' a multi-precision integer (accepts length modifier giving octets in integer) |
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7 An arbitrary sized integer. |
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8 'w' an unsigned multi-precision integer (accepts length modified) |
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9 An arbitrary sized unsigned integer. |
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11 'y' a yes/no value, aka a boolean |
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12 Encoded as a single byte 0 or 1. |
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13 |
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14 'b' binary |
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15 An opaque blob of binary data |
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16 |
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17 's' string (accepts a length modifier for fixed length strings) |
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18 A sequence of UTF-8 encoded characters. |
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19 |
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20 'k' integer 8 |
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21 An 8-bit two's complement integer |
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22 'p' unsigned integer 8 |
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23 An 8-bit integer that is always >= 0 (may also be used for bitfields) |
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24 'j' integer 16 |
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25 A 16-bit two's complement integer |
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26 'o' unsigned integer 16 (no, 'o' makes no sense) |
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27 A 16-bit integer that is always >= 0 (may also be used for bitfields) |
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28 'i' integer 32 |
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29 A 32-bit two's complement integer |
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30 'u' integer 32 |
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31 A 32-bit integer that is always >= 0 (may also be used for bitfields) |
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32 'l' integer 64 |
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33 A 64-bit two's complement integer |
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34 'n' integer 64 |
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35 A 64-bit integer that is always >= 0 (may also be used for bitfields) |
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36 |
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37 'f' floating |
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38 An IEEE 754 64 bit floating point number. |
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39 'h' half-size floating |
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40 An IEEE 754 32 bit floating point number. |
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41 'g' a giant arbitrary precision floating point (maybe) |
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42 An IEEE 754 floating point number with a sign + exponent size of 16 |
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43 bits and an arbitrary number of bits of precision. |
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44 |
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45 't(...)' Tuple (a ')' terminated list of types) |
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46 A grouping of values. |
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47 'a[.]' an array (contains one type, the type of all the elements) |
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48 Array's, lists and sets are largely indistinguishable in how they |
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49 look on the wire, and so they are all represented by an |
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50 array. Array's are not length delimited, there is a flag before |
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51 each element saying whether or not it's the last one. |
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52 'd{..}' a dictionary (contains two types, the key type and value type of all the elements) |
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53 A mapping from keys to values. |
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54 'v' variant type |
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55 This is a type where the type is encoded in its value. |
