The dc_parser_set_data() function allows to re-use a parser object for
multiple dives. The advantages of this feature are actually very limited
in practice. The reduction in memory consumption is almost negligible,
because the amount of internal state in the parser is typically very
small. But the implementation requires some additional complexity
because each backend needs code to reset its internal state. Therefore,
the function is removed and the data and size needs to be passed
directly to the dc_parser_new() and dc_parser_new2() functions instead.
Because keeping a reference to the data has also caused issues in the
past, especially for applications implemented in a garbage collected
language, the data will now also get copied internally.
Because the sample struct is passed by value, the size of the structure
can't be changed without also changing the function signature and
breaking backwards compatibility. This prevents adding new fields in the
future, to support some new features.
When passing the sample struct by reference using a pointer, the size of
the pointer does always remains the same.
For gas consumption calculations it's very convenient to know whether a
tank is used for example in a sidemount configuration, or as
oxygen/diluent tank on a rebreather.
For rebreather dives, it's convenient to know whether a gas mix is used
as a closed-circuit mix (oxygen/diluent) or as an open circuit mix
(bailout).
Some dive computers, especially freediving computers, supports multiple
samples per second. Since our smallest unit of time is one second, we
can't represent this, and the extra samples are dropped. Therefore, the
units are changed to milliseconds to prepare supporting this extra
resolution.
The Deepblu Cosmiq+ uses a plaintext and line based communication
protocol over BLE, where the binary payload data is encoded as
hexadecimal characters.
Based-on-code-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
