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Primitives

This section describes Ion 1.1's binary encoding primitives—reusable building blocks that can be combined to represent more complex constructs.

NameTypeWidth
FixedUIntintDetermined by context
FixedIntintDetermined by context
FlexUIntintVariable, self-delimiting
FlexIntintVariable, self-delimiting
FlexSymsymbolVariable, self-delimiting