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by SlowRobotAhead 2293 days ago
For reference, I’m using TimyCBOR because it’s include with Amazon FreeRTOS.

You’re on your own for malloc, which for me is great because FreeRTOS Heap4 management is quite good. So I malloc an object I’m decoding into and parse away.

There are two options parsing arrays and strings/bytestrings and I just chose the option where I specify the pointer to use, vs them using normal malloc then free() later.

I really like this setup. I made a deinit(bad_message) that works anywhere it failed (parse, validate, eval, etc), goes through and looks for pointers that I previously would have malloc’ed.

There is another popular library but I forget what it’s called.