Michael Beckerle created DAFFODIL-1889: ------------------------------------------
Summary: binaryNumberRep='offsetBinary' Key: DAFFODIL-1889 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DAFFODIL-1889 Project: Daffodil Issue Type: New Feature Components: Back End, Front End Reporter: Michael Beckerle Fix For: deferred Implement the binaryNumberRep 'offsetBinary'. This is a good first project for someone new to the Daffodil code base. This is a proposal for inclusion in the DFDL language, needed for some formats such as STANAG 5516. This is also called excess-K, or biased, but I think offset binary is a better description of it. In this representation you take an unsigned binary, and just subtract an offset. E.g., for a 3-bit number, mostSignificantBitFirst: bits unsigned twos-comp offsetBinary 000 0 0 -4 001 1 1 -3 010 2 2 -2 011 3 3 -1 100 4 -4 0 101 5 -3 1 110 6 -2 2 111 7 -1 3 At the moment, users have to work around this in Daffodil using inputValueCalc and outputValueCalc. This is feasible, but really awkward for such a simple concept. The DFDL spec would change so table 13.7 allows 'offsetBinary' for the signed integer types. The lengthKind would have to be implicit or explicit. (SDE otherwise). -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)