- 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 (to arrays): [convert(t)] attribute for forcing conversions from CH_UCS2, etc to UTF8 [noheader] attribute -> Indicating the string is not preceded Implement: ndr.pm: - represent a string as an array with length set to "STRING" - [string] implies is_varying unless noheader is specified. ndr_parser.pm: - if [charset()] specified, use instead of the for loops (call ndr_pu{ll,sh}_charset() - calculate length using helper function if [string] is specified The various flags for strings would change as follows: LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_ASCII -> [convert(CH_ASCII)] LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_LEN4 -> [string] LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE4 -> [size_is()] or if needed [conformant] LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NOTERM -> array LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_NULLTERM -> [noheader] LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_SIZE2 -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length] LIBNDR_FLAG_STR_BYTESIZE -> uint16 length; [string] char data[length] 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) - compatibility mode for generating MIDL-readable data: - strip out pidl-specific properties - convert subcontext() to an array of chars.