Re: EBML data type constraints

On Thu, 02 Jul 2015 15:15:41 +0200
Jerome Martinez <[email protected]> wrote:

> Le 02/07/2015 14:43, wm4 a écrit :
> > I agree. Though I'd lobby that strings with zero bytes are also 
> > discouraged this way.
> 
> There is a difference between a non-existent string and an empty string 
> (e.g. non-existent string means "take default" and empty string means 
> "empty string is the actual value").
> Such difference does not exist with integers (there is no "empty integer").
> So if it is forbidden somewhere, it should be forbidden for integers only.

Again, I was talking about strings with a length larger than 0 which
contain '\0' characters.

> BTW, I am not convinced that we should say that 0-byte integers should 
> be forbidden, we accept 0 as a value for integers having a size from 1 
> to 8 bytes (and the "missing" bytes are considered as 0, we don't force 
> the value 1 to be in an integer of 1 byte), so why not accepting a 
> 0-byte integer with a size of 0 and we handle it with the same algorithm?
> The only issue I see is the legacy problem with demuxers in the wild 
> which reject the 0-byte integer beause the spec on the Matroska site 
> says "1-8". Is it enough for having 0-byte integers forbidden in the 
> standard instead of filling a bug report for each demuxer? I don't know.
> 
> > Maybe calling them "deprecated" is the right wording?
> 
> "deprecated" is usually used for standardized formats which used to 
> accept some content.
> Here, there is no previous standard (there is no standard), so I would 
> not use such term.
> If it is forbidden in specs, I would just use something like:
> Muxers MUST NOT store 0-byte integers
> Demuxers SHOULD accept 0-byte integers and interpret them as 0.
> which is pretty clear about the goal (=accepting "buggy" files).
> 
> 
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