Unfortunately "-std=c99" is not sufficient to make gcc ignore code that
uses constructs of earlier C standards, which were abandoned in C99.
See https://lwn.net/ml/fedora-devel/Y1kvF35WozzGBpc8@redhat.com/ for
some related discussion.
Change-Id: I79c51b78d1b055361f9ef5434361847353791d0d
During code review, it was indicated that some TLV protocols that we
will likely deal with in the near future also employ an I, and instance
value of a tag. Add TLIV support.
A usage example for a manually implemented TLIV structure is found in
tests/libosmo-gtlv/gtlv_test.c.
A usage example for a generated TLIV protocol is found in
tests/libosmo-gtlv/test_tliv/.
Related: SYS#5599
Change-Id: I0a076e54dfba6038cc779cb7c8f3967d212226aa
An all new TLV parser supporting:
- Any size of T and L (determined by callback function),
- "Grouped IEs", so that an IE payload is a nested IE structure,
- optional/mandatory/multi-occurence IEs,
- decoding unordered tags (or enforcing strict order).
Will be used for PFCP message decoding and encoding, a T16L16V protocol
which requires above features.
Upcoming patches add
- translating PDUs to plain C structs and vice versa
- TLV generator to reduce repetition a in protocol definition
- TLIV capability
Previously, the way we deal with TLVs causes a lot of code
re-implementation: the TL decoding is taken care of by the API, but for
encoding, we essentially re-implement each protocol and each encoded
message in the individual programs. This API is an improvement in that
we only once implement the TL coding (or just use osmo_t8l8v_cfg /
osmo_t16l16v_cfg), get symmetric de- and encoding of the TL, and only
need to deal with the value part of each IE.
The common pattern of
- store TL preliminarily,
- write V data and
- update L after V is complete
is conveniently done by osmo_gtlv_put_update_tl().
Related: SYS#5599
Change-Id: Ib0fd00d9f288ffe13b7e67701f3e47073587404a
Harald Welte
Neels Hofmeyr