Skip shortcut targets if any. (A1)

inline int BinaryFormat::skipAllAttributes(const uint8_t* const dict, const uint8_t flags,

        const int pos) {

    // This function skips all attributes. The format makes provision for future extension

    // with other attributes (notably shortcuts) but for the time being, bigrams are the

    // only attributes that may be found in a character group, so we only look at bigrams

    // in this version.

    // This function skips all attributes: shortcuts and bigrams.

    int newPos = pos;

    if (UnigramDictionary::FLAG_HAS_SHORTCUT_TARGETS & flags) {

        newPos = skipAttributes(dict, newPos);

    }

    if (UnigramDictionary::FLAG_HAS_BIGRAMS & flags) {

        return skipAttributes(dict, pos);

    } else {

        return pos;

        newPos = skipAttributes(dict, newPos);

    }

    return newPos;

}

inline int BinaryFormat::skipChildrenPosAndAttributes(const uint8_t* const dict,