IniCompiler

Compiles an INI file into binary data

Fundamentals

1. Concept of sections. Each section is given a strong type. Each section can contain the following:

• 3 Main Wire Types: 64-bit integer, 64-bit floating point value, 64-bit pointer
• Primitives: bool, int8, uint8, int16, uint16, int32, uint32, int64, uint64 -> uint64
• single, double -> double
• string -> 8-byte pointer to length-prefixed utf16 data
• object -> 8-byte pointer to another section (described by name)
• map<K, V> -> sorted list<K> followed by list<V> where K must be either a primitive type or a string. V must be a primitive type, string, or object, and cannot be a list<>.
• set<K> -> sorted list<K>
• list<Primitives>
• list<string>
• list<object>
• NOT Permitted: list<list<object>, but list<someObject> where someObject is list<object> permitted.

Overall Layout

1. 8-bytes of Magic Number: 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x42, 0x49, 0x4E, 0x49
2. Number Of Sections (8-bytes)
3. Pointers to Section Names (Number Of Sections * 8-bytes) [NOTE: Parallel array with 4.]
4. Pointers to Section Offsets (Number Of Sections * 8-bytes) [NOTE: Parallel array with 3.]
5. Section Data

Section

1. Number Of Fields
2. Field Data (Number of Fields * 8-bytes) [NOTE: Data can be inline in the case of primitive types, or pointers in the case of object, string, list<>]