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From: Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid>
Subject: Re: AI12-0218: What is the portable representation clause for processing IETF packets on little-endian machines?
Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 16:14:55 -0700
Date: 2018-05-10T16:14:55-07:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lgcryufk.fsf@nightsong.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: flk0a3Fpvi4U1@mid.individual.net

Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid> writes:
> It is not clearly explained how endianness is interpreted for fields
> that do not align with octet boundaries.

I don't see an unclarity as long as the machine is either big or little
endian.  That specifies whether the more significant bits are at the
higher addresses or the lower ones.  There could possibly be some
confusion with the weird old VAX representation that was neither big nor
little, but the Erlang page doesn't try to deal with that case.


  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-10 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 63+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-10 17:45 AI12-0218: What is the portable representation clause for processing IETF packets on little-endian machines? Dan'l Miller
2018-05-10 19:24 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-10 20:32   ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-10 22:24     ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-10 22:44       ` Niklas Holsti
2018-05-10 23:14         ` Paul Rubin [this message]
2018-05-11  2:38         ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-11  7:55           ` Simon Wright
2018-05-11 12:11             ` Lucretia
2018-05-11 13:49               ` Simon Wright
2018-05-11 16:11                 ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-11 16:48                   ` Simon Wright
2018-05-11 19:08                     ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-11 21:39                       ` Simon Wright
2018-05-11 21:56                         ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-12  7:08                           ` Simon Wright
2018-05-12  7:53                             ` Jeffrey R. Carter
2018-05-14 22:43                             ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-11 13:46             ` Simon Wright
2018-05-11 22:12           ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-12 10:33             ` Björn Lundin
2018-05-12 13:08               ` Simon Wright
2018-05-12 14:21                 ` Björn Lundin
2018-05-10 23:07       ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-11  0:14         ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-11  0:30           ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-11  0:50             ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-11  1:34               ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-11  2:11                 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-11 22:32                   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-11  8:02         ` Simon Wright
2018-05-11 22:14         ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-10 19:28 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-10 22:40   ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-10 22:50     ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-11 22:00       ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-12  1:15         ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-14 22:54           ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-15  0:43             ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-15 21:39               ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-15  0:44             ` Dennis Lee Bieber
2018-05-11  8:09     ` Simon Wright
2018-05-10 19:34 ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-05-10 20:06   ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-10 22:44     ` Paul Rubin
2018-05-10 22:50     ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-11  9:40       ` Niklas Holsti
2018-05-11 11:40         ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-11 20:16           ` Niklas Holsti
2018-05-11  9:40     ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-05-11 14:21 ` AdaMagica
2018-05-26 16:15 ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-26 19:02   ` AdaMagica
2018-05-26 21:01     ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-27 14:58       ` AdaMagica
2018-05-27 18:03         ` Simon Wright
2018-05-29 22:17           ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-30  6:39             ` Simon Wright
2018-05-30  7:25               ` Dmitry A. Kazakov
2018-05-30 15:01                 ` Simon Wright
2018-05-30 15:59                   ` Dan'l Miller
2018-05-30 19:38               ` Randy Brukardt
2018-05-27 18:04         ` Dan'l Miller
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