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diff --git a/source4/build/pidl/TODO b/source4/build/pidl/TODO new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..2f45c2d11a --- /dev/null +++ b/source4/build/pidl/TODO @@ -0,0 +1,27 @@ +- Fix string support. + This would make strings a special kind of arrays flagged by the + [string] attribute. Pidl itself would support a couple of extra + attributes for it's own use while being compatible with other IDL + compilers. + Proposed extensions for pidl: + [convert(t)] attribute for forcing conversions from CH_UCS2, etc to UTF8 + [noterm] attribute + [nullterm] attribute + +The various flags for strings would change as follows: + +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_ASCII -> [convert(CH_ASCII)] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_LEN4 -> optionally [length_is()] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE4 -> [size_is()] or if needed [conformant] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NOTERM -> [noterm] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NULLTERM -> [nullterm] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE2 -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_BYTESIZE -> ??? +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN32 -> [32] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CONFORMANT -> no longer needed +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_CHARLEN -> ??? +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_UTF8 -> Nothing (but UCS2 has [convert(CH_UCS2)] +LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_FIXLEN15 -> [15] + +- True multiple dimension array / strings in arrays support (closely related to + things specified above) |