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From: Kilgallen@eisner.decus.org.nospam (Larry Kilgallen)
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Subject: Re: Question about "for X'Size use ..."
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In article <87ofpnzmpj.fsf@deneb.enyo.de>, Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> writes:

> Probably.  I'm still a bit irritated because people are dealing with
> such issues and do not tackle the more eminent problem of specifying
> the byte/octet order for discrete types (both in-memory representation
> and stream I/O layout).

That's what I like about ASN.1.  I don't know XDR.