[PROTON-2445] Make codec encoder use short forms for ULONG & UINT 0

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: proton-c-0.36.0
• Component/s: proton-c
• Assignee: Andrew Stitcher
• Reporter: Andrew Stitcher
• Created: 29/Oct/21 19:20
• Updated: 05/Nov/21 09:11
• Resolved: 29/Oct/21 19:42

Description

The codec encoder previously would never encode the short forms for ULONG & UINT 0. There seems to be no good reason for this. Using the short forms saves a significant amount of frame space in frames that have a lot of 0 ulongs in them.