Re: [sip-clf] New CLF Syntax draft (text with index)

[Simon Perreault <[e-mail]>]

Adam Roach wrote, on 07/05/09 03:20 PM:
> I considered doing it both ways, but decided that I preferred the slight
> space impact of being able to get to any fixed field by looking at only
> two numbers instead of all the preceding fields. I'm open to doing just
> lengths if people are very sensitive to the size of each record, but
> have a personal preference for what's in the draft currently.

I'm sorry, I don't understand. Why would one need to look at all the preceding
fields?

Let's say you want to look at field 3. You look up the third pointer (p3), this
gives you the start of the field. Then you look up the fourth pointer (p4), this
give you the end of the field. If you want the length you compute p4 - p3.

Is it because of a possible overflow in the pointers? They're only 16-bit big,
while each field's length is also 16-bit big...

Thanks,
Simon
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