Both encoder and decoder versions were functionally equivalent,
but I picked the decoder version (but added the static inline
keywords to it) since the encoder one was quite messy with a lot
of commented out code.
No code exists within the project for building such a trace library.
This also fixes building on OS X with -Wno-deprecated-declarations
removed, since this code contained calls to deprecated functions
within #ifdef MACOS, which now are enabled when building on OS X.
