Using store_var adds more stuff than specified in the documentations

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By Aurora2500

According to the docs for the binary serialization API

Each packet is stored with a 4 byte header indicating the type of the data stored, and then the data itself, depending on the type.

But when I use store_var, it seems like there is an aditional 4 bytes in the header of each packet.

When I execute store_var(42), I’d expect to see:

00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000
00101010 00000000 00000000 00000000

With the first 4 bytes being a 2, indicating that it is an int, and the last 4 bytes being the number 42 encoded in binary.
Instead what I get is:



00001000 00000000 00000000 00000000
00000010 00000000 00000000 00000000
00101010 00000000 00000000 00000000

And I can’t seem to figure out what the first 4 bytes are meant to be here.
Is the documentation outdated?