Re: Expressing large integer values in D-Bus APIs

Bastien Nocera <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.dbus
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2017-07-17 at 12:12 -0700, Andy Grover wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> If we have a large integer value that might exceed 64 bits, how best
> to 
> expose it on D-Bus? Convert to string? an array of [u64 (high), u64 
> (low)]? An array of 16 bytes and specify endianness?
> 
> Another solution (but the most work) would be to add INT/UINT128
> basic 
> types. Is that within the realm of possibility?

What's it for? Hard to know what a better type would be otherwise.
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