2012/1/23 Olaf Meeuwissen <olaf.meeuwissen@avasys.jp>

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The phoenix::size and inherited attribute where two helpful cluebats,
though. With those (and fixing some of the stupidities in my original
code) I've been able to come close but I always miss the first byte in
the vector. Any ideas why and how to fix that?

That's why you need no_attribute[] if you cannot have karma::embed.

Get this:

http://boost.2283326.n4.nabble.com/attachment/3228512/1/no_attribute_directive.hpp

Used like:

no_attribute[pascal_string_size_[ _1 = size (_val) ]]

HTH