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Rolf,

Oh I made a mistake that I think mantissa is optional. so the value is 
decreased by 1.

I want to know how to handle if a field is absent. 

Michael

> > Rolf,
> >
> > I am sorry I got confused again. For tag 271, the pmap bit is 0. so
> > the default value 0 is used for exponent. Can we say that the exponent
> > has a value so that we need to decode mantissa? If so, the encoded
> > value is 0x82 for the mantissa. The decoded value should be 1 since it
> > is delta operator, Right?
> 
> Yes, 0x82 is for the mantissa. No, the decoded mantissa value is 2. Why
> do you think the value should be 1?
> 
> > BTW, if the length field of a sequence field is greater than 1, does
> > the sequence pmap appear each iteration?
> 
> yes, as noted in my mail below
> 
> (FAST 1.1 spec section 6.2.5 says: "If any instruction of the group
> needs to allocate a bit in a presence map, each element is represented
> as a segment in the transfer encoding." "element" in this context is
> synonymous with my use of "iteration" in my mail below)
> 
> /Rolf
> 
> ... snip ...
> 
> >> Michael,
> >>
> >> The pmap entry for the length field is located in the _message_ level
> >> pmap (bit 7 in this case). The sequence level pmap occurs for every
> >> iteration (repetition) of the sequence and provides presence info for
> >> the fields in the current iteration.


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