Composable parsing functions always feel a bit weird to me in C. I don't
know if this is because of something C lacks, such as multiple return
values, or if composable parsers are just inherently awkward to describe
in procedural languages because of the different levels of state.
But I think the API here is pretty ok. The main idea is that data
parsers can be added as functions in the lfsr_data_* namespace that take
lfsr_data_t as a mutable reference, updating the lfsr_data_t's internal
state as data is parsed.
In practice you only need a couple of primitives, bytes, le32s, leb128s,
that touch the internals of lfsr_data_t, and the other parsers can be
built using these.
This leverages the pointer-like abstraction of lfsr_data_t, and avoids
needing to keep track of offsets. And thanks to lfsr_data_t being
relatively cheap to make copies, this API is relatively flexible.
Some other tweaks:
- Signed leb128 overflow detection is moved up into lfs_fromleb128.
littlefs now assumes _all_ leb128s are 31-bits, which is useful for
leveraging the sign bit internally.
This also fixes the an issue in overflow detection in lfs_fromleb128
which wouldn't catch overflows in the last byte of a >32-bit leb128.
- Most lfsr_data_t functions now take a pointer. This offered a small
bit of code savings and feels more natural in C. Though most functions
that accept lfsr_data_t still take a copy. Most of these functions
would need to make a copy anyways now that the parsers are consuming,
and these copies avoid concerns about shared state.
At 3-words, lfsr_data_t is right at that boundary of questionable
reasonableness for copying, but copying is a very useful feature of
this struct.
This ends up with some decent code/stack savings:
code stack
before: 22118 2048
after: 21722 (-1.8%) 1992 (-2.7%)
Christopher Haster
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