Data representation formats

ts@datcon.co.uk (Tony Sowter)
Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:00:44 GMT

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From: ts@datcon.co.uk (Tony Sowter)
Summary: Help required to find a format to store data representation information
Keywords: design, question, comment
Organization: Data Connection Limited
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 1994 12:00:44 GMT

To Anyone That Can Help,


I am writing a client-server model which will send messages between
machines of different types. What I need is to find out how to store
information about the data representation of the machines which I am
running on. I know that I need to store data ordering of the machine, but
what about structure packing? Some machines use natural alignment, others
use compressed format.


It seems to me that there must be a way of storing information about the
packing used by the hardware/compiler combination in a handful of bytes
(RPC systems must have something like this).


Does anyone know what a good solution is, or appropriate books/articles
which address this problem?


I'd appreciate any help anyone can give.


Tony Sowter


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[Many systems use Sun's XDR which basically maps everything into word
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