NAME

       mkchdr - creates a C header file from a type table

SYNOPSIS

       mkchdr <tbl-file> [output-file]

DESCRIPTION

       mkchdr  will  generate  a  C header file from the given type table.  The C data structures
       will be written to the given output file.  If an output file is not given, the C header is
       written to stdout.

       The  generated  C  data  structure  is  the value representation that table driven encoder
       expects (and decoder returns) for the type definitions in the given type table.  The table
       driven  encoder  and  decoder, etc.  routines do not use the generated header - they treat
       the data in a generic way.  The generated header file  simply  saves  you  the  hassle  of
       dealing with ASN.1 values in the same generic way.  Instead you get properly named structs
       and field names.  You do not need to use mkchdr to use the table driven encoders etc.  but
       it is recommended.

FILES

       snacc/tbl-tools/mkchdr/     Source code for the mkchdr program

BUGS

       There is no means of customizing the generated data structure.

COPYING

       Copyright (c) 1993 Mike Sample and the University of British Columbia

       Permission  is  granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the
       copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.

       Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this  manual  under  the
       conditions  for  verbatim  copying,  provided  that  the  entire resulting derived work is
       distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one.

AUTHOR

       Mike Sample <msample@cs.ubc.ca>, University of British Columbia

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       This work was made possible by grants from the Canadian Institute  for  Telecommunications
       Research (CITR) and Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC).

                                           11 July 1993                                 MKCHDR(1)