In character oriented protocol, the mechanism adopted is byte stuffing.In byte stuffing, a special byte called the escape character (ESC) is stuffed before every byte in the message with the same pattern as the flag byte. If the ESC sequence is found in the message byte, then another ESC ...
GlassGem is a Swift package that implements the Consistent Overhead Byte Stuffing (COBS) algorithm for encoding arbitrary data with single byte packet delimiters. It consists of an extension on Data with exactly two methods: encodedUsingCOBS() and decodedFromCOBS(). Usage Encoding: let someData ...
C and C++ have bitfields and struct types, but the standard does not guarantee the byte alignment. The compiler is free to stuff the record with additional bytes according to the processor data bus size. Enforcement of stuffing can be controlled via compiler options but is not portable. ...