----- Original Message -----
From: "Sim. Ja." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 12:16 PM
Subject: Re: [ASN.1] BER: minimum number of bytes?


> Ok, I thought it is trivial that I mean the value part.
>
> One byte for tag. One byte for length.
> And how many bytes for value? one or two?

Minimum number of octets needed for the integer value.

For example, if the value is 10, it MUST be encoded in one byte, and if it
is 500, then of course you need two bytes.

Please check my second reply for the clarification of above.

Thanks,

Rajul

>
>
>  --- Rajul Gupta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sim. Ja." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 01, 2002 9:16 AM
> > Subject: [ASN.1] BER: minimum number of bytes?
> >
> >
> > > Hi folk,
> > >
> > > I hope, you could confirm this statement.
> > > Given an element description as below
> > > cug-Index                 [17] IMPLICIT INTEGER ( 0 .. 32767 )
> > OPTIONAL,
> > >
> > > if the value to be encoded is 0x0a, which needs only one byte in BER,
> > > I must use one byte for a minimum encoding.
> >
> > I don't think you can encode above in one byte. You need three bytes for
> > BER
> > (91 01 0A) and two for PER (00 0A). Also, your value range is between 0
> > and
> > 32767, which can't fit in one byte for all the possible values.
> >
> > Rajul
> >
> > > Thanks in advance
> > > Simin
> > >
> > > PS: The alternative is to see the space reserved for this value as
> > always
> > > two bytes.
> > >
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