2 This would make strings a special kind of arrays flagged by the
3 [string] attribute. Pidl itself would support a couple of extra
4 attributes for it's own use while being compatible with other IDL
6 Proposed extensions for pidl (to arrays):
7 [convert(t)] attribute for forcing conversions from CH_UCS2, etc to UTF8
8 [noterm] attribute -> Indicating there is no terminating character
9 [nullterm] attribute -> Indicating the string is null terminated
11 The various flags for strings would change as follows:
13 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_ASCII -> [convert(CH_ASCII)]
14 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_LEN4 -> optionally [length_is()]
15 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE4 -> [size_is()] or if needed [conformant]
16 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NOTERM -> [noterm]
17 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NULLTERM -> [nullterm]
18 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE2 -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length]
19 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_BYTESIZE -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length]
20 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN32 -> [32]
21 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CONFORMANT -> no longer needed
22 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CHARLEN -> ???
23 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_UTF8 -> Nothing (but UCS2 has [convert(CH_UCS2)]
24 LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN15 -> [15]
26 - True multiple dimension array / strings in arrays support (closely related to
27 things specified above)