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On 10/03/2011 08:10 AM, Stefan Berger wrote:
> I am doing that. Indefinite length encoding *would* be a problem because you
> cannot push the size onto the stack so that you could skip to the end of the
> structure.

For an indefinite length encoding, you just have to keep reading the stream at 
end_struct until you hit the canary tag ignoring anything you encounter.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

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> Stefan
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