Many external ASN.1 modules that we have imported over time define types
like this:
Foo ::= SEQUENCE { bar Bar }
Bar ::= SEQUENCE { aMember INTEGER }
and before this change one had to re-order the definitions so that the
one for `Bar` came first. No more.
We can now have out of order definitions in ASN.1 modules and the
compiler will topologically sort output C type declarations so that one
no longer has to manually sort types in ASN.1 modules when importing
them.
Besides that, it is now possible to create circular data types using
OPTIONAL since we generate such fields as pointers (which can then be
pointers to incomplete struct declarations):
Circular ::= SEQUENCE {
name UTF8String,
next Circular OPTIONAL
}
Circular types aren't necessarily useful, but they have been used in the
past. E.g., the rpc.mountd protocol uses a circular type as a linked
list -- it should just have used an array, of course, as that's
semantically equivalent but more space efficient in its encoding, but
the point is that such types exist out there.
the lex code in heimdal had a function error_message() which is
confusingly the ame as a core function from the com_err library. This
replaces it with lex_error_message(), and allows Samba4 to have a
stricter check for duplicate symbols between it's components.
Pair-Programmed-With: Andrew Tridgell <tridge@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Love Hornquist Astrand <lha@h5l.org>
Highlighs for the compiler is support for CHOICE and in general better
support for tags. This compiler support most of what is needed for
PK-INIT, LDAP, X.509, PKCS-12 and many other protocols.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.h5l.se/heimdal/trunk/heimdal@15617 ec53bebd-3082-4978-b11e-865c3cabbd6b
