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Re: Examples of ASN.1 for SMIng.txt
Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote:
>
> >>>>> Alessandro Triglia writes:
>
> Alessandro> The constraint in Float32 is slightly more complicated,
> Alessandro> because it involves knowledge of the encoding. However,
> Alessandro> this constraint can be expressed by constraining the range
> Alessandro> of the mantissa and the range of the exponent.
>
> Alessandro> Float32 ::= REAL (WITH COMPONENTS { mantissa(<some
> Alessandro> range>), base(2), exponent(<some range>) })
>
> Alessandro> In both cases, we just chose to make the specification
> Alessandro> simpler.
>
> I am still wondering how you express an IEEE floating point number
> together with the special values formally in ASN.1. But your answer is
> probably that using something like an IEEE floating point number is
> wrong anyway. ;-)
I'm not sure this is the point you are making but decimal real numbers
(i.e., the dotted notation) are now allowed as ASN.1 values.
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