Enumeration Filters

The XDR library provides a primitive for generic enumerations. The primitive assumes that a C enum has the same representation inside the machine as a C integer. The Boolean type is an important instance of the enum. The external representation of a Boolean is always TRUE (1) or FALSE (0).

#define bool_t int
#define FALSE  0
#define TRUE   1
#define enum_t int
bool_t xdr_enum(xdrs, ep)
   XDR *xdrs;
   enum_t *ep;
bool_t xdr_bool(xdrs, bp)
   XDR *xdrs;
   bool_t *bp;

The second parameters ep and bp are addresses of the associated type that provides data to or receives data from the stream xdrs.