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8.4.1 Enumerations

str2enum.tpl

Produce an enumeration for a list of input “cmd”s (names). Optionally, produce functions to:

The header file produced will contain the enumeration and declarations for the optional procedures. The code (‘.c’) file will contain these optional procedures, but can be omitted if the no-code attribute is specified.

The following attributes are recognized with the str2enum template:

cmd

You must provide a series of these attributes: they specify the list of names used in the enumeration. Specific values for the names may be specified by specifying a numeric index for these attributes. e.g. cmd[5] = mumble; will cause

 
FOO_CMD_MUMBLE = 5

to be inserted into the enumeration. Do not specify a value of “invalid”, unless you specify the invalid-name attribute. (In that case, do not specify a cmd value that matches the invalid-name value.)

prefix

This specifies the first segment of each enumeration name. If not specified, the first segment of the enumeration definition file name will be used. e.g. ‘foo-bar.def’ will default to a FOO prefix.

type

Normally, there is a second constant segment following the prefix. If not specified, it will be CMD, so if both prefix and type were to default from ‘foo-bar.def’, you will have enumeration values prefixed with FOO_CMD_. If specified as the empty string, there will be no “type” component to the name and the default constant prefix will thus be FOO_.

base-name

This specifies the base name of the output files, enumeration type and the translation functions. The default is to use the basename(3) of the definition file. e.g. ‘foo-bar.def’ results in a base-name of foo-bar.

invalid-val

The default invalid value is zero. Sometimes, it is useful for zero to be valid. If so, you can specify ~0 or the empty string to be invalid. The empty string will cause the enumeration count (maximum value plus 1) to be the invalid value.

invalid-name

By default, the invalid value is emitted into the enumeration as FOO_INVALID_CMD. Specifying this attribute will replace INVALID with whatever you place in this attribute.

add-on-text

Additional text to insert into the code or header file.

ao-file

Which file to insert the text into. There are four choices, only two of which are relevant for the ‘str2enum’ template: “enum-header”, “enum-code”, “mask-header” or “mask-code”.

ao-text

The text to insert.


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