Decimal Encoding

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Imported from previous forum

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Hi,

Consider the following decimal field:

If the pmap bit for exponent is not set, Should we consider the presence of exponent in the message? According to section 6.3.4, it should be considered. Am I correct?

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Hi Faltu,

no, the exponent doesn’t appear in the stream if the pmap bit is not set. The mantissa will appear however.

Your template entry:

may be described by the following pseudo-code:

if (the pmap bit is not set) [section 6.3.4]
{
the exponent will be -2
the mantissa will appear in the stream.
}
else // (the pmap bit is set)
{
the exponent will appear in the stream.

if (the exponent is null) [section 10.5.1]
{
the mantissa will not appear in the stream,
the field is considered to be absent.
}
else // the exponent is present and non-null
{
the mantissa will appear in the stream.
the field is considered to be present.
}
}

HTH,
Rolf

Hi,

Consider the following decimal field:

If the pmap bit for exponent is not set, Should we consider the
presence of exponent in the message? According to section 6.3.4,
it should be considered. Am I correct?