On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 02:32:20PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > Please have the length of strings upfront. > Length encoding isn't self-syncing,
Better that than not being able to easily pass arbitrary data, which might include NULLs. > and it also limits the length of > individual parameters by the size of the length. Which would sure as > anything bring us back to this discussion eventually. So have a sizeof_length field first :-) sizeof(sizeof_length) == 128 should work for at least a few years. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist Cum catapultae proscriptae erunt tum soli proscript catapultas habebunt
