From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-05-30T06:04:33+09:00
Subject: Re: RCR: unpack/pack Bignum

On Fri, May 30, 2003 at 04:59:05AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> But I don't guess variable length integer packing is so useful.

Except if it could do away with all those different encoding characters:
1-byte, 2-byte little-endian, 2-byte big-endian, 4-byte little-endian,
4-byte big-endian, etc...

What would be really nice is if we could have just one symbol meaning "pack
an integer" (or "unpack an integer"), or rather two characters (one for
big-endian, one for little-endian), plus a number of bytes.

I suppose maybe another option for signed/unsigned, for use when unpacking
(and/or for bounds checking when packing). So at most that's 4 symbols to
cover all options.

Cheers,

Brian.