TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Overview of ASN1C

Using the Compiler

Running ASN1C from the Command-line

Using the GUI Wizard to Run ASN1C

Compiling and Linking Generated Code

Porting Run-time Code to Other Platforms

Compiler Configuration File

Compiler Error Reporting

Generated C/C++ Source Code

Header (.h) File

BOOLEAN

INTEGER

BIT STRING

OCTET STRING

ENUMERATED

NULL

OBJECT IDENTIFIER

RELATIVE-OID

REAL

SEQUENCE

SET

SEQUENCE OF

SET OF

CHOICE

Open Type

Character String Types

Time String Types

EXTERNAL Type

EMBEDDED PDV Type

Parameterized Types

Value Specifications

CLASS specification

ABSTRACT-SYNTAX and TYPE-IDENTIFIER

Information Object

Information Object Set

Encode/Decode Function Prototypes

Generated C++ Control Class Definition

Generated Methods

Generated Information Object Table Structures

Generated C Source Files

Maximum Lines per File

Use of the -maxcfiles Option

Generated C++ files

Generated C/C++ files and the -compat Option

General Procedures for Encoding and Decoding

Dynamic Memory Management

Populating Generated Structure Variables for Encoding

Accessing Encoded Message Components

Generated BER Encode Functions

Generated C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Generated C++ Encode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Calling C Encode Functions

Encoding a Series of Messages Using the C Encode Functions

Procedure for Using the C++ Control Class Encode Method

Encoding a Series of Messages Using the C++ Control Class Interface

Generated BER Decode Functions

Generated C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Generated C++ Decode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Calling C Decode Functions

Decoding a Series of Messages Using the C Decode Functions

Procedure for Using the C++ Control Class Decode Method

Decoding a Series of Messages Using the C++ Control Class Interface

BER Decode Performance Enhancement Techniques

BER/DER Deferred Decoding

Generated BER Stream-Oriented Encode Functions

Generated Stream-Oriented C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Calling Stream-Oriented C Encode Functions

Encoding a Series of Messages Using the Stream-Oriented C Encode Functions

Generated Stream-Oriented C++ Encode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Using the Stream-Oriented C++ Control Class Encode Method

Encoding a Series of Messages Using the Stream-Oriented C++ Control Class Interface

Generated BER Stream-Oriented Decode Functions

Generated Stream-Oriented C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Calling Stream-Oriented C Decode Functions

Decoding a Series of Messages Using the Stream-Oriented C Decode Functions

Generated Stream-Oriented C++ Decode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Using the Stream-Oriented C++ Control Class Decode Method

Decoding a Series of Messages Using the C++ Control Class Interface

Generated PER Encode Functions

Generated C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Generated C++ Encode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Populating Generated Structure Variables for Encoding

Procedure for Calling C Encode Functions

Procedure for Using the C++ Control Class Encode Method

Encoding a Series of PER Messages using the C++ Interface

Generated PER Decode Functions

Generated C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Generated C++ Decode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Calling C Decode Functions

Procedure for Using the C++ Control Class Encode Method

Decoding a Series of Messages Using the C++ Control Class Interface

Performance Considerations: Dynamic Memory Management

Generated XER Encode Functions

Generated C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Generated C++ Encode Method Format and Calling Parameters

Populating Generated Structure Variables for Encoding

Procedure for Calling C Encode Functions

Procedure for Using the C++ Control Class Encode Method

Generated XER Decode Functions

Procedure for Using the C Interface

Generated C Function Format and Calling Parameters

Procedure for Calling C Decode Functions

Procedure for Using the C++ Interface

Procedure for Interfacing with Other C and C++ XML Parser Libraries

Generated XML Encode and Decode Functions

Generated Initialization Functions

Generated Memory Free Functions

Generated Print Functions

Print to Standard Output

Print to String

Print to Stream

Print Format

Generated Compare Functions

Generated Copy Functions

Generated Test Functions

Generated Makefile

Event Handler Interface

How it Works

How to Use It

IMPORT/EXPORT of Types

ROSE and SNMP Macro Support

ROSE OPERATION and ERROR

SNMP OBJECT-TYPE

Index