From: Sergey Matveev <stargrave@stargrave.org>
Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2021 18:15:17 +0000 (+0300)
Subject: Note about XDR inability to address >32-bit bytes
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Note about XDR inability to address >32-bit bytes
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diff --git a/doc/pkt.texi b/doc/pkt.texi
index f7bbe56..33c2f28 100644
--- a/doc/pkt.texi
+++ b/doc/pkt.texi
@@ -50,8 +50,9 @@ drive.
 
 Path has fixed size because of hiding its actual length -- it is
 valuable metadata. Payload is appended to the header -- it is not stored
-as XDR field, because most XDR libraries will store all that data in the
-memory.
+as XDR field, because XDR has no ability to pass more than 4 GiB of
+opaque data. Moreover most XDR libraries store fields in the memory in
+practice.
 
 Depending on the packet's type, payload could store: