This is protobuf-c, a C implementation of Protocol Buffers.

This file defines the public API for the libprotobuf-c support library. This API includes interfaces that can be used directly by client code as well as the interfaces used by the code generated by the protoc-gen-c compiler plugin.

The libprotobuf-c support library performs the actual serialization and deserialization of Protocol Buffers messages. It interacts with structures, definitions, and metadata generated by the protoc-gen-c compiler plugin from .proto files.

Authors: Dave Benson and the protobuf-c authors.