sequence and variant types: use previous field for length/tag if NULL
A common use-case for sequences and variants is to use the field located
immediately prior to the type as length/tag.
The fact that those types need to explicitly contain their length/tag
name ties the sequence/variant type to where it is placed within the
structure fields, preventing re-use of the sequence/variant type.
In order to reduce the memory footprint of the field descriptions and
allow re-use of common field types, special-case the NULL length name
and tag name to use the field prior to the sequence/variant as length.
This allows more efficient type descriptions without reducing the
overall flexibility of sequence/variant layout.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I27053e8541beb4f8f8226e411c71595f7527f533
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