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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
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Subject: Re: Using representation clauses in networking software
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:44:33 +0200
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* Dmitry A. Kazakov:

> On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:44:34 +0200, Yannick Duch�ne (Hibou57) wrote:
>
> (I agree with what you wrote. I am programming a lot of communication
> stuff, but never used representation clauses to handle endianness.)

This is not surprising because the current representation clauses
cannot handle it.

I wonder if there has been any attempt to enhance representation
clauses so that they are useful in this context.