Google Protocol Buffers - Fixed size buffer?

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Hi All.

Using Google Protocol Buffers, can I set a maximum size for all messages I encode?

if I know that what I encode is never larger than X bytes, then Google Protobuffs would always produce a buffer of size Y, and if I give it a smaller amount of data, pad it to size Y?

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