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Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] idl2eth update

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 14:53:58 -0500
Hi,

Here is a patch for idl2eth for the following improvements.

 - Handle "short" as a union discriminant type
 - Handle case where union discriminant may be a typedef
 - Change integer template to long template
 - Initial code for \n and \t as  union case labels.

Thanks to Paul for his observations.

Twas diffed against 2001-10-24 nightly tarball.

Cheers / Frank..

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--- ../ethereal-2001-10-24/ethereal_gen.py	Thu Oct 18 16:49:58 2001
+++ ../ethereal-2001-10-24.updated/ethereal_gen.py	Thu Oct 25 14:27:42 2001
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- python -*-
 #
-# $Id: ethereal_gen.py,v 1.13 2001/10/18 21:49:58 guy Exp $
+# $Id: ethereal_gen.py,v 1.4 2001/10/25 19:27:42 frank Exp $
 #                           
 # ethereal_gen.py (part of idl2eth)           
 #
@@ -1099,9 +1099,7 @@
             sys.stderr.write( "Error: idl2eth does not handle recursive unions yet \n")
             sys.exit(1)
             
-        st = ntype.switchType()
-
-            
+        st = ntype.switchType().unalias() # may be typedef switch type, so find real type
 
         #std = st.decl()
 
@@ -1133,7 +1131,11 @@
             self.addvar(self.c_s_disc + pn + ";")            
 
         elif (st.kind() == idltype.tk_long):
-            self.st.out(self.template_union_code_save_discriminant_integer, discname=pn )
+            self.st.out(self.template_union_code_save_discriminant_long, discname=pn )
+            self.addvar(self.c_s_disc + pn + ";")            
+
+        elif (st.kind() == idltype.tk_short):
+            self.st.out(self.template_union_code_save_discriminant_short, discname=pn )
             self.addvar(self.c_s_disc + pn + ";")            
 
         elif (st.kind() == idltype.tk_boolean):
@@ -1176,9 +1178,18 @@
                 #    
                 # if char, dont convert to int, but put inside single quotes so that it is understood by C.
                 # eg: if (disc == 'b')..
+                #
+                # TODO : handle \xxx chars generically from a function or table lookup rather than
+                #        a whole bunch of "if" statements. -- FS
+                
                                           
-                if (st.kind() == idltype.tk_char):      
-                    string_clv = "'" + clv + "'"
+                if (st.kind() == idltype.tk_char):
+                    if (clv == '\n'):          # newline
+                        string_clv = "'\\n'" 
+                    elif (clv == '\t'):        # tab
+                        string_clv = "'\\t'"
+                    else:
+                        string_clv = "'" + clv + "'"
                 else:                    
                     string_clv = '%i ' % clv
 
@@ -2523,9 +2534,13 @@
 disc_s_@discname@ = (gint32) u_octet4;     /* save Enum Value  discriminant and cast to gint32 */
 """
     
-    template_union_code_save_discriminant_integer = """\
+    template_union_code_save_discriminant_long = """\
 disc_s_@discname@ = (gint32) s_octet4;     /* save gint32 discriminant and cast to gint32 */
 """
+
+    template_union_code_save_discriminant_short = """\
+disc_s_@discname@ = (gint32) s_octet2;     /* save gint16 discriminant and cast to gint32 */
+"""    
     
     template_union_code_save_discriminant_char = """\
 disc_s_@discname@ = (gint32) u_octet1;     /* save guint1 discriminant and cast to gint32 */