From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/12
Date: 1997-02-12T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3301F4D0.15D0@elca-matrix.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: dewar.855763110@merv
Robert Dewar wrote:
>
> Laurent Pautet said
>
> <<GLADE is only 95% XDR in order to follow LRM requirements. The 5%
> comes from the XDR 4 bytes rule (basically strings).>>
> These primitive values are written in accordance with the rules in the XDR
> standard, which are followed 100% accurately.
>
> If you want to intercommunicate with another language, that other language
> must understand the sequence of items that is written into the stream.
> For example if we use 'Output on a four character string with bounds 1..4,
> then six elements are written:
>
> lower bound
> upper bound
> first character
> second character
> third character
> fourth character
>
> each of these six elements is represented using the XDR standard. The
> "other language" code must read these six elements and assemble them into
> whatever makes best sense for representing this particular aggregate data
> item.
Does each of these six elements occupy 4 bytes in the message ?
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-02-07 0:00 fixed point types over an interface Allen Krell
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Mats Weber
1997-02-10 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-11 0:00 ` nassera
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Samuel Tardieu
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Laurent Pautet
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-12 0:00 ` Mats Weber [this message]
1997-02-17 0:00 ` Jacob Sparre Andersen
1997-02-18 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1997-02-13 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1997-02-07 0:00 ` Matthew Heaney
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