Parameters</dt><dd>
  <table class="params">
    <tr><td class="paramname">value</td><td>value to be encoded </td></tr>
    <tr><td class="paramname">octets_needed</td><td>points to the return value</td></tr>
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<dl class="section note"><dt>Note</dt><dd>ASN coded integers are <em>always</em> signed. E.g. +0xFFFF is coded as 0x00,0xFF,0xFF. Note the leading sign octet. A positive value of 0xFFFFFFFF is preceded with 0x00 and the length is 5 octets!! </dd></dl>

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