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Re: [quicwg/base-drafts] QPACK improvement: wrap absolute index values (#1644)

Dmitri Tikhonov <notifications@github.com> Tue, 14 August 2018 12:41 UTC

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I am still lost.  Is this number the absolute index of the next entry to be inserted, then?

In that case, you will still need signaling -- this is because zero is a valid index value.  `0` cannot both mean "no references" and "reference to entry `MaxEntries * 2 - 1`."

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