Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 30 Sep 2002 22:54:37 +0200 | From | Francois Romieu <> | Subject | Re: Generic HDLC interface continued |
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Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> : [...] > Not exactly. The caller always knows meaning of the returned value > (or it reports error etc). The caller doesn't just know size of the value > _in_advance_, as it isn't constant. Still, meaning of the variable portion > of the data is defined by the constant part.
The caller doesn't know size in advance but he gets 'type' and 'size' at the same time. Why shouldn't 'size' be deduced from 'type' ?
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