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Add warning in ctypes documentation for #16575 and #16576

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Eli Bendersky 2013-03-09 05:54:32 -08:00
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@ -608,6 +608,13 @@ for debugging because they can provide useful information::
.. _ctypes-structureunion-alignment-byte-order: .. _ctypes-structureunion-alignment-byte-order:
.. warning::
:mod:`ctypes` does not support passing unions or structures with bit-fields
to functions by value. While this may work on 32-bit x86, it's not
guaranteed by the library to work in the general case. Unions and
structures with bit-fields should always be passed to functions by pointer.
Structure/union alignment and byte order Structure/union alignment and byte order
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^