+ * Example usage:
+ * MyMessage msg = {};
+ * pb_ostream_t stream = PB_OSTREAM_SIZING;
+ * pb_encode(&stream, MyMessage_fields, &msg);
+ * printf("Message size is %d\n", stream.bytes_written);
+ */
+#ifndef PB_NO_ERRMSG
+#define PB_OSTREAM_SIZING {0,0,0,0,0}
+#else
+#define PB_OSTREAM_SIZING {0,0,0,0}
+#endif
+
+/* Function to write into a pb_ostream_t stream. You can use this if you need
+ * to append or prepend some custom headers to the message.
+ */
+bool pb_write(pb_ostream_t *stream, const uint8_t *buf, size_t count);
+
+/* Structure for defining custom output streams. You will need to provide
+ * a callback function to write the bytes to your storage, which can be
+ * for example a file or a network socket.
+ *
+ * The callback must conform to these rules:
+ *
+ * 1) Return false on IO errors. This will cause encoding to abort.