On Wed, Dec 5, 2018 at 6:04 AM Ole Troan <otr...@employees.org> wrote:
> All,
>
Hi Ole,
> Here is an update on API progress.
>
> In the long process of making types in the API language more explicit I
> have a few changes merged and a few in the pipeline:
>
Hooray!
> - Type aliases. Previously any new user defined type had to be a
> structure. With type aliasing one can do
> e.g.
> typedef u32 interface_index
> instead of:
> typedef {
> u32 index;
> } interface_index;
>
> This is merged in 53fffa1d
>
> I have a similar change for the relatively new ip4_address and ip6_address
> types, so instead of:
> typedef {
> u32 address[4];
> } ip4_address;
>
> That is now: typedef u32 ip4_address[4];
>
And we mean s/u32/u8/ here, right? :-)
> I will try to update the API definitions with new type as I get the
> chance. bool and type aliases are backwards compatible (in that they
> require no change on the VPP side).
>
[ ... ]
Any other changes you’d like in the API language?
>
I noticed that we had f64, but not f32 the other day. Is that by accident
or choice?
Related, it might be nice to have the clib_host_to_net_f{32,64}() functions
too?
(We are apparently doing those as clib_host_to_net_u64() and casting them
to f64 now.)
And please let me know if you have comments on the above.
>
> Cheers,
> Ole
>
Pedantically,
jdl
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
Links: You receive all messages sent to this group.
View/Reply Online (#11514): https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/message/11514
Mute This Topic: https://lists.fd.io/mt/28610110/21656
Group Owner: vpp-dev+ow...@lists.fd.io
Unsubscribe: https://lists.fd.io/g/vpp-dev/unsub [arch...@mail-archive.com]
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
