[NUT-devel] Another suggestion for broadcast [PATCH]

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:32:48AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Rich Felker <dalias at aerifal.cx> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:32:14AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> >> Another possibility is to precede each optional field with a 1-bit
> >> flag indicating its presence.  The size of the containing element can
> >> then also implicitly exclude any unused fields at the end.  This may
> >> of course not be desired for frequently repeated elements where the
> >> flags could be specified in a global header.
> >
> > I hope you understand, a 1bit field means a 1byte field. NUT has no
> > support for sub-byte data units except when they're appropriately
> > padded with reserved bits.
> 
> Sounds like a deficiency.

In what respect? That is what would we gain with droping byte alignment?
I think we would gain a lot of complexity primarely ;)

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