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From: Mats Weber <Mats.Weber@elca-matrix.ch>
Subject: Re: fixed point types over an interface
Date: 1997/02/12
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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 ?