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What I do appreciate about TLV-style formats is general-purpose debugging tools. When all you have is a bitstream where field lengths are not multiples of 8 bit
by athenot 6y ago
What I do appreciate about TLV-style formats is general-purpose debugging tools. When all you have is a bitstream where field lengths are not multiples of 8 bits and are variable based on the actual value being encoded (looking at you, MPEG), the toolset to debug streams ends up being non-trivial.
- cryptonector 6y agoIf the IDL compiler is more like a library then you can have an "asn1print" that takes a schema and dumps the data correctly with all the metadata you need and want and none of the crappy TLV.