ken@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Ken Birman) (10/06/89)
Here's what I have so far:
1) Include real support for %f, %g formats (probably IEEE standard only)
2) Arrange to have data fields aligned on 8-byte boundaries so that
msg_get formats like %-G don't risk an alignment error on reception side
3) Add some sort of %- format on send, in which the message picks up a
pointer (e.g. to a huge data array) rather than copying
4) Support an inline structure declaration: {%d,%d,%f...} (padding?)
I think I can do everything; would probably deal with the padding issue
in (4) by giving an error message on the reception side if it doesn't
seem to match up correctly.
Ken