On Mon, 18 Mar 2019 09:59:59 -0700 (PDT)
R Srinivasan <s...@srin.me> wrote:

> my intial attempts to define the data structures have hit a roadblock - 
> support for data types such as uint16, int16, uint8, int8. Is this an 
> inherent protobuf limitation or am i overlooking something.

Yep. Protobuf is an exchange format of its own. 

https://github.com/google/flatbuffers should give you more flexibility.
If your binary is tightly packed it will not be effortless, but doable. 

If you need to support bitfields you may also look at the 'bitpeek'
simple parser code for inspiration:

https://github.com/ohir/bitpeek

Hope this helps,


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Wojciech S. Czarnecki
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