Merge pull request #1413 from ethereum/calldata-layout

docs: add a section about calldata layout
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Layout of Call Data
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When a Solidity contract is deployed and when it is called from an
account, the input data is assumed to be in the format in `the ABI
specification
<https://github.com/ethereum/wiki/wiki/Ethereum-Contract-ABI>`_. The
ABI specification requires arguments to be padded to multiples of 32
bytes. The internal function calls use a different convention.
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Esoteric Features
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