On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 7:56 AM Rob Sayre <say...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 7:41 AM Eric Rescorla <e...@rtfm.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 7:32 AM Rob Sayre <say...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> >> >>> Judging by the mailing list archives, the design of the field is >>>>> intentional. It's not clear to me why "zeros" wasn't specified as >>>>> variable-length with a prose restriction, though. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Because then you have a spurious length field. >>>> >>> >>> I don't understand why it would be spurious. In this case, the >>> deserializing implementation needs to inspect every byte anyway. >>> >> >> Because if you set padding to be the length of the maximum value, then a >> length byte makes every message one longer. >> > > Sorry if I'm being dense here. Couldn't "zeros" have a length? Maybe you > just mean it would be superfluous. >
Yes, that is what I mean. -Ekr
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