From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Subject: Using representation clauses in networking software
Date: Sun, 15 Aug 2010 13:33:32 +0200
Date: 2010-08-15T13:33:32+02:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739ugqfeb.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
Have there been any efforts to fix representation clauses so that they
are suitable for expressing elements commonly found in networking
protocols?
My understanding is that representation clauses are totally unsuitable
for this purpose because they do not allow the programmer to express
endianness. I dimly recall a technical report which argued that
expressing endianness portably was impossible. However, Erlang's bit
syntax seems to be a counterexample, so I wonder if that issue has
been picked up in recent years.
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2010-08-15 11:33 Florian Weimer [this message]
2010-08-15 13:44 ` Using representation clauses in networking software Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 14:32 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 14:44 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 15:04 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 15:32 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 16:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 16:40 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 17:58 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-15 19:11 ` Shark8
2010-08-15 19:15 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-15 20:25 ` Maciej Sobczak
2010-08-15 21:24 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-16 6:40 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-09-04 20:46 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-15 15:39 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 15:31 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 15:30 ` Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
2010-08-15 16:10 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2010-08-16 10:57 ` Stephen Leake
2010-08-15 15:58 ` Simon Wright
2010-08-15 16:03 ` Florian Weimer
2010-08-17 3:32 ` Randy Brukardt
2010-08-16 9:12 ` anon
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