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diff --git a/docs/abi-spec.rst b/docs/abi-spec.rst index 21e67201..e4f8ed4f 100644 --- a/docs/abi-spec.rst +++ b/docs/abi-spec.rst @@ -559,7 +559,7 @@ would result in the JSON: Non-standard Packed Mode ======================== -Solidity supports a non-standard packed mode where: +Through ``abi.encodePacked()``, Solidity supports a non-standard packed mode where: - no :ref:`function selector <abi_function_selector>` is encoded, - types shorter than 32 bytes are neither zero padded nor sign extended and @@ -577,3 +577,9 @@ More specifically, each statically-sized type takes as many bytes as its range h and dynamically-sized types like ``string``, ``bytes`` or ``uint[]`` are encoded without their length field. This means that the encoding is ambiguous as soon as there are two dynamically-sized elements. + +Note that constants will be packed using the minimum number of bytes required to store them. +This means that, for example, ``abi.encodePacked(0) == abi.encodePacked(uint8(0)) == hex"00"`` and +``abi.encodePacked(0x12345678) == abi.encodePacked(uint32(0x12345678)) == hex"12345678"``. + +If padding is needed, explicit type conversions can be used: ``abi.encodePacked(uint16(0x12)) == hex"0012"``.
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