problems compiling H.323 ASN.1

[Bertil Karlsson]

Vance Shipley wrote:
> 
> I've been trying out the ASN.1 compiler for the first time and have
> had it failing on some ITU ASN.1 files for H.323.  I am wondering
> whether the files I have are incorrect or whether there is a bug in
> the compiler.
> 
> The problem seems to be the comment on line 139:
> 
>               manufacturerCode  INTEGER(0..65535) -- assigned --
>               -- nationally}
> 
> It's not seeing the "}" 'cause it comes at the end of the comment.
> Moving the "}" down one line fixes the problem.
> 
> There are a bunch of these that all need the same fix.  Is this bad
> ASN.1 or bad parsing?

It's bad ASN.1 and correct parsing. A double hyphen, '--' comments to
the end of the
line or to the next double hyphen. Thus the "}" above is accidentally
hidden by the
comment, unfortunately this is a rather common error in ASN.1 standard
specs.


> 
>         -Vance
> 
> http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/database/itu-t/h/h245/2001/MULTIMEDIA-SYSTEM-CONTROL.asn
> 
> Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.2 [64-bit] [source] [shared heap] [threads:10]
> 
> Eshell V5.2  (abort with ^G)
> 1> asn1ct:compile("MULTIMEDIA-SYSTEM-CONTROL.asn").
> Erlang ASN.1 version "1.4" compiling "MULTIMEDIA-SYSTEM-CONTROL.asn"
> Compiler Options: []
> syntax error at line 145 in module MULTIMEDIA-SYSTEM-CONTROL.asn:
>  got 'MasterSlaveDetermination' expected '}'
> {error,[got,'MasterSlaveDetermination',expected,'}']}

-- 
/ Bertil Karlsson