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> The resulting type and value of an instance of use of the new value notation is determined by the value (and the type of the value) finally assigned to the di
by SAI_Peregrinus 6y ago
> The resulting type and value of an instance of use of the new value notation is determined by the value (and the type of the value) finally assigned to the distinguished local reference identified by the keyword VALUE, according to the processing of the macrodefinition for the new type notation followed by that for the new value notation.
— ISO 8824:1988, Annex A
Now, ASN.1 may not strictly be an API, but it's pretty crap.
- memling 6y agothere's a reason no one uses the old standards if they can help it. when I worked on a compiler for asn.1 we supported a very limited subset of the 1988 macros by doing some hard coded generation.