+/****d* silcutil/SILCTypes/SilcParam
+ *
+ * NAME
+ *
+ * typedef SilcUInt32 SilcParam;
+ *
+ * DESCRIPTION
+ *
+ * A generic parameters that describe the type of an parameter or argument.
+ * They can be used to describe function arguments, buffer encoding format,
+ * etc.
+ *
+ * SOURCE
+ */
+typedef SilcUInt32 SilcParam;
+
+#define SILC_PARAM_SINT8 1 /* SilcInt8 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UINT8 2 /* SilcUInt8 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_SINT16 3 /* SilcInt16 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UINT16 4 /* SilcUInt16 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_SINT32 5 /* SilcInt32 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UINT32 6 /* SilcUInt32 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_SINT64 7 /* SilcInt64 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UINT64 8 /* SilcUInt64 */
+#define SILC_PARAM_SICHAR 9 /* signed char * */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UICHAR 10 /* unsigned char * */
+#define SILC_PARAM_BUFFER 11 /* SilcBuffer */
+#define SILC_PARAM_PTR 12 /* void * */
+#define SILC_PARAM_END 0xfeeefff1 /* End of parameters */
+/***/
+
+/* Internal parameter types, not publicly documented */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UI8_STRING 100 /* String (max len 8-bits) */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UI16_STRING 101 /* String (max len 16-bits) */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UI32_STRING 102 /* String (max len 32-bits) */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UI8_NSTRING 103 /* String (max len 8-bits) */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UI16_NSTRING 104 /* String (max len 16-bits) */
+#define SILC_PARAM_UI32_NSTRING 105 /* String (max len 32-bits) */
+#define SILC_PARAM_OFFSET 106
+#define SILC_PARAM_ADVANCE 107
+#define SILC_PARAM_FUNC 108
+#define SILC_PARAM_REGEX 109
+#define SILC_PARAM_OFFSET_START 110
+#define SILC_PARAM_OFFSET_END 111
+#define SILC_PARAM_ALLOC 0x00010000 /* Allocate, bitmask */
+