On Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 10:00 AM R Srinivasan <s...@srin.me> wrote: > i am investigating the use of go+protobuf for reading binary files of a > legacy design. >
> my intial attempts to define the data structures have hit a roadblock - > support for data types such as uint16, int16, uint8, int8. Is this an > inherent protobuf limitation or am i overlooking something. > The protobuf subsystem cannot be used to read/write arbitrary binary formats. Binary protobufs use a very efficient, compact, encoding that is architecture neutral. For example, int fields are encoded the same way regardless of whether your CPU is little or big endian. -- Kurtis Rader Caretaker of the exceptional canines Junior and Hank -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
