From cf88b4ed51f6c87127a4100dfad8209aea8cc40a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: JoelKatz <DavidJoelSchwartz@GMail.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2012 16:03:33 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add Serializer::lengthVL to get the total length of a VL

---
 src/Serializer.h | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/Serializer.h b/src/Serializer.h
index 95fbbaa02e..e747a4fd57 100644
--- a/src/Serializer.h
+++ b/src/Serializer.h
@@ -103,6 +103,7 @@ public:
 
 	// low-level VL length encode/decode functions
 	static std::vector<unsigned char> encodeVL(int length);
+	static int lengthVL(int length) { return length + encodeLengthLength(length); }
 	static int encodeLengthLength(int length); // length to encode length
 	static int decodeLengthLength(int b1);
 	static int decodeVLLength(int b1);