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+/* am7xxx - communication with AM7xxx based USB Pico Projectors and DPFs
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2012 Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
+ *
+ * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ * it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ * the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+ * (at your option) any later version.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+ */
+
+/* You can transform a serializazion block of code which uses put-* into the
+ * correspondent unserialization block with this vim substitution pattern:
+ *
+ * s/put_\([^(]*\)(\([^,]*\),\s*\([^)]*\))/\2 = get_\1(\3)/g
+ */
+
+#ifndef __SERIALIZE_H
+#define __SERIALIZE_H
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+
+uint8_t get_8(uint8_t **bufferp);
+uint32_t get_le32(uint8_t **bufferp);
+
+uint8_t *put_8(uint8_t value, uint8_t **bufferp);
+uint8_t *put_le32(uint32_t value, uint8_t **bufferp);
+
+#endif /* __SERIALIZE_H */