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#) The deprecated Protocol Buffers feature called "groups" is not supported.
#) Fields in the generated structs are ordered by the tag number, instead of the natural ordering in .proto file.
#) Unknown fields are not preserved when decoding and re-encoding a message.
+#) Numeric arrays are always encoded as packed, even if not marked as packed in .proto. This causes incompatibility with decoders that do not support packed format.
Getting started
===============
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The number of bytes in the message is stored in *stream.bytes_written*.
You can feed the message to *protoc --decode=Example example.proto* to verify its validity.
+Debugging and testing
+=====================
+Extensive unittests are included under the *tests* folder. Just type *make* there to run the tests.
+
+This also generates a file called *breakpoints* which includes all lines returning *false* in nanopb. You can use this in gdb by typing *source breakpoints*, after which gdb will break on first nanopb error.
+
Wishlist
========
#) A specialized encoder for encoding to a memory buffer. Should serialize in reverse order to avoid having to determine submessage size beforehand.