Doesn't seem to say what happens if type is signed, but length in bits is 1. Can we make this an SDE please, since it can't be interpreted as a twos-complement integer? Alternatively, can we clarify that if the length is 1, the bit is interpreted as if there was a sign bit of 0? When people write: <element name="myBit" type="xs:int" dfdl:length="1"/> I am pretty sure they aren't expecting values of 0 or -1. They're expecting 0 or 1. ...mikeb On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:46 AM, Steve Hanson <smh@uk.ibm.com> wrote:
*Errata 2.90*. *Sections 12.3, 12.3.7.2*. Additionally allow lengthUnits 'bits' to apply to binary signed integer types, to support the modeling of signed integer bit fields in the C language. The physical bits are interpreted as a two's complement integer.
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From: Mike Beckerle <mbeckerle.dfdl@gmail.com> To: dfdl-wg@ogf.org, Date: 10/12/2012 21:42 Subject: [DFDL-WG] needed: signed bit fields Sent by: dfdl-wg-bounces@ogf.org ------------------------------
current DFDL v1.0 spec says bit fields are all unsigned integers up to length 64.
I am modeling data that uses lots of twos-complement 24-bit long and other length signed integers on various bit-boundaries.
Was there a reason to leave signed twos-complement out for bit fields (other than perhaps just we thought we might get away with it?)
The only corner case I can think of is if you make a 1-bit wide signed bit field. This should be a Schema Defintion Error I believe, because twos-complement isn't defined unless you have at one sign bit, and at least 1 mantissa bit.
...mikeb
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