Handling Reserved Messages and Reserved Fields in Client Programs

A client program may receive reserved messages and messages with reserved fields. If a message is a reserved message, the client program should ignore the message by skipping body-length bytes after the message header:

• If a message contains reserved fixed fields, the client program should skip that number of bytes based on the field size.

• If a message contains a reserved floating field, the client program should skip the number of bytes identified in the FieldDataLength field plus two bytes.