On Tue, Sep 10, 2002 at 06:01:23PM +0200, Peter Gibbs wrote: > Attached is a sample implementation of a minor subset of > pack/unpack functionality. Code is not optimised in any way, > and error checking is basically non-existent. > > Opcodes are: > convert Sx, Iy, Iz - pack integer Iy into string Sx per type Iz > convert Ix, Sy, Iz - unpack integer Ix from string Sy per type Iz > > Currently supported types are: > 0 = 8-bit > 1 = 16-bit little-endian > 2 = 16-bit big-endian > 3 = 32-bit little-endian > 4 = 32-bit big-endian
As well as supporting big/little endian specifically, should we support "native" ie packed in the same endian as the machine the code is being run on. Graham.
