Re: EDB storage format

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Patrick Barnes wrote:
> 
> Rob,
> Looking at the way that EDB stores euphoria objects, is there any
> combination of bytes that can be guaranteed to *NEVER* occur at the
> start of the byte-representation of an object?
> -- 

It seems to me that there would never be something like this to start off a
stored object:

{251,0,0,0,0}

because the 251 is the I4B flag indicating a 4-byte integer followed, but
4-bytes would never be needed to store 0 as bytes {0,0,0,0} so {251,0,0,0,0}
should never occur.  Is that correct?

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