[NUT-devel] Another suggestion for broadcast [PATCH]

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 01:32:14AM +0000, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> Another possibility is to precede each optional field with a 1-bit
> flag indicating its presence.  The size of the containing element can
> then also implicitly exclude any unused fields at the end.  This may
> of course not be desired for frequently repeated elements where the
> flags could be specified in a global header.

I hope you understand, a 1bit field means a 1byte field. NUT has no
support for sub-byte data units except when they're appropriately
padded with reserved bits.

Rich