[2596] in Kerberos_V5_Development
Re: sized types, and ridding ourselves of them
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc Horowitz)
Mon Oct 20 20:51:17 1997
To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Ken Hornstein <kenh@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, krbdev@MIT.EDU
From: Marc Horowitz <marc@cygnus.com>
Date: 20 Oct 1997 20:50:42 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of Mon, 20 Oct 1997 20:21:59 -0400
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" <tytso@MIT.EDU> writes:
>> That's not necessary true. You could use ASN.1 :-)
>>
>> (but it would be a bad idea)
ASN.1 is fixed size, in a horrendously obtuse way (integers are
self-describing). XDR has dynamic-length objects, too.
Marc
