From: Zeeshan Ali <zeeshanak@gnome.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Feb 2021 11:34:08 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: spec: Clarify Array element needs to be padded even if inexistent
X-Git-Tag: dbus-1.13.20~40^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e7db7e93904dc65ca5be49954252d3d819ae5bbe;p=thirdparty%2Fdbus.git

spec: Clarify Array element needs to be padded even if inexistent
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diff --git a/doc/dbus-specification.xml b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
index a43244d3b..31a351dd0 100644
--- a/doc/dbus-specification.xml
+++ b/doc/dbus-specification.xml
@@ -1207,7 +1207,9 @@
         array elements marshalled in sequence. <varname>n</varname> does not
         include the padding after the length, or any padding after the
         last element. i.e. <varname>n</varname> should be divisible by the
-        number of elements in the array.
+        number of elements in the array. Note that the alignment padding for the
+        first element is required even if there is no first element (an
+        empty array, where <varname>n</varname> is zero).
       </para>
 
       <para>