On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Umut Emin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello List, > > This is more a "X.690 standards" question. > > Debussion's book indicate on page 394 that the > byte ordering of BER encoded multi-byte(int etc.) data is > of big-endian type. I wanted to have a look where this is > said in the X.690 standards, but odd as it is, > i can't find any single sentence on endianness. > > Now how does the book comes to conclusion then? > If I have missed it during my searches, which > clause exactly tell the most significant octet comes > the first and the subsequent follow? Or is it > a common choice of implementation?
For encoding of an integer, have a look at clause 8.3.3: The contents octets shall be a two's complement binary number equal to the integer value, and consisting of bits 8 to 1 of the first octet, followed by bits 8 to 1 of the second octet, followed by bits 8 to 1 of each octet in turn up to and including the last octet of the contents octets. _______________________________________________ Asn1 mailing list [email protected] http://lists.asn1.org/mailman/listinfo/asn1
