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Gregor Maier
72454c230b Add support for enum with explicit enumerator values.
* Adding support for enums with explicit enumerator values (see doc
  below) to bifcl and policy layer.

* Bifcl: remove (partially written) output files on error and
  do a nice exit(1) instead of harsh abort() on parse errors.

* CMakeText: if bifcl fails, remove output files (failsafe,
  in case bifcl fails to clean up after itself).

Enum description
----------------

Enum's are supported in .bif and .bro scripts.
An enum in a bif will become available in the event engine and
the policy layer.

Enums are "C-style". The first element in an enum will have a
value of 0, the next value will be 1, etc.
It is possible to assign an enumerator value to an element. If
next element does not have an explicit value, its values will be
the value of the last element + 1

Example::
    type foo: enum {
        BAR_A,      # value will be  0
        BAR_B,      # value will be  1
        BAR_C = 10, # value will be 10
        BAR_D,      # value will be 11
    };

Enumerator values can only by positive integer literals.
The literals can be specified in (0x....), but not in octal (bro policy
layer limitation). So, do not use 0123 as value in bifs!

Each enumerator value can only be used once per enum (C allows
to use the same value multiple times). This makes reverse mapping from
value to name (e.g., in %s format strings) unambigious. This is enforced
in by the policy script.

Enums can be redef'ed, i.e., extended. Enumerator values will continue
to increment. If there are multiple redefs in different policy scripts,
then name <-> value mappings will obviously depend on the order in
which scripts are loaded (which might not be obvious).

Example::

    redef enum foo += {
        BAR_E,      # value will be 12
        BAR_F = 5,  # value will be  5
        BAR_G,      # value will be  6
    };
2011-02-10 13:14:24 -08:00
Robin Sommer
75335b933e Removing global_attrs from parser, per #11, and also record
attributes. Both aren't used anywhere. Along with these goes some
more now unused code.

Closes #11.
2011-01-19 18:00:09 -08:00
Robin Sommer
61757ac78b Initial import of svn+ssh:://svn.icir.org/bro/trunk/bro as of r7088 2010-09-27 20:42:30 -07:00