ucs1 / ucs2

[mx_w]

Hi All,

i had a look at the protocol, and i have a few questions about the strings. for example this struct:

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struct CITP_PINF_PLoc
{
CITP_PINF_Header CITPPINFHeader;
ucs1Type[];
ucs1Name[];
ucs1State[];
};

It carries three strings with variable length in it. The spec says the ucs1 are

Open arrays of ucs1 or ucs2 are null terminated strings.

but in c99 open arrays ( they call it "flexible array member" ) must be the last element of a struct.

So - to avoid massively shooting down other lighting consoles - let us assume we have for the above case

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Type = "LightingConsole" (16 incl. \0)
Name = "MyCoolName" (11 incl. \0)
State = "Idle" (5 incl. \0)

How is the struct supposed to be in layout?
Do the strings have a specified size, like eg 256?

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sizeof(CITPPINFHeader)+256+256+256

Or a dynamic layout like

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sizeof(CITPPINFHeader)+16+11+5

and if so, are the strings concatenated or does the parser expect
three pointers with the strings appended to the end?

Best regards + thank you very much,
Heiner

[lasso]

Hi,

I realize the use of the keyword struct is probably what is causing the confusion here, so I will remove that from the spec. The second sentence of the first paragraph under section 2 is supposed to clarify this, but... well.

Anyway, the message definitions are not to be interpreted as C structs - they describe the contents of a binary data stream. I would recommend never memcpy'ing network data straight into C structs.