Marshall

n 1: American jurist; as chief justice of the Supreme Court he

established the principles of United States

constitutional law (1755-1835) [syn: {Marshall}, {John

Marshall}]

2: (in some countries) a military officer of highest rank [syn:

{marshal}]

3: a law officer having duties similar to those of a sheriff in

carrying out the judgments of a court of law [syn: {marshal}]

marshalling

(US -ll- or -l-) The process of packing one

or more items of data into a message {buffer}, prior to

transmitting that message buffer over a communication channel.

The packing process not only collects together values which

may be stored in non-consecutive memory locations but also

converts data of different types into a standard

representation agreed with the recipient of the message.

(2000-06-09)