Re: Expressing large integer values in D-Bus APIs

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo-kC51rjc0cqs1dNLGKZg6taU/[email protected]> Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:20:06 +1200

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On Mon, 17 Jul 2017 15:34:08 -0700, Thiago Macieira wrote:

> I'd recommend you just follow regular "bigint" type marshalling in
> other binary protocols.

Several years ago I came up with a variation
<http://www.codecodex.com/wiki/Variable-Length_Integers> on the scheme
used in Standard MIDI files. By applying an offset adjustment at each
stage in the shift, I create a fully bijective encoding, while making
the packing scheme ever so slightly more efficient.
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