+/* example from documentation.. 'Using Odr' */
+void do_nothing_useful(int value)
+{
+ ODR encode, decode;
+ Odr_int *valp, *resvalp;
+ char *bufferp;
+ int len;
+
+ /* allocate streams */
+ if (!(encode = odr_createmem(ODR_ENCODE)))
+ return;
+ if (!(decode = odr_createmem(ODR_DECODE)))
+ return;
+
+ valp = &value;
+ if (odr_integer(encode, &valp, 0, 0) == 0)
+ {
+ printf("encoding went bad\n");
+ return;
+ }
+ bufferp = odr_getbuf(encode, &len, 0);
+ printf("length of encoded data is %d\n", len);
+
+ /* now let's decode the thing again */
+ odr_setbuf(decode, bufferp, len, 0);
+ if (odr_integer(decode, &resvalp, 0, 0) == 0)
+ {
+ printf("decoding went bad\n");
+ return;
+ }
+ /* ODR_INT_PRINTF format for printf (such as %d) */
+ printf("the value is " ODR_INT_PRINTF "\n", *resvalp);
+
+ /* clean up */
+ odr_destroy(encode);
+ odr_destroy(decode);
+}
+