enum_flags to_string

This commit introduces shared infrastructure that can be used to
implement enum_flags -> to_string functions.  With this, if we want to
support converting a given enum_flags specialization to string, we
just need to implement a function that provides the enumerator->string
mapping, like so:

 enum some_flag
   {
     SOME_FLAG1 = 1 << 0,
     SOME_FLAG2 = 1 << 1,
     SOME_FLAG3 = 1 << 2,
   };

 DEF_ENUM_FLAGS_TYPE (some_flag, some_flags);

 static std::string
 to_string (some_flags flags)
 {
   static constexpr some_flags::string_mapping mapping[] = {
     MAP_ENUM_FLAG (SOME_FLAG1),
     MAP_ENUM_FLAG (SOME_FLAG2),
     MAP_ENUM_FLAG (SOME_FLAG3),
   };
   return flags.to_string (mapping);
 }

.. and then to_string(SOME_FLAG2 | SOME_FLAG3) produces a string like
"0x6 [SOME_FLAG2 SOME_FLAG3]".

If we happen to forget to update the mapping array when we introduce a
new enumerator, then the string representation will pretty-print the
flags it knows about, and then the leftover flags in hex (one single
number).  For example, if we had missed mapping SOME_FLAG2 above, we'd
end up with:

  to_string(SOME_FLAG2 | SOME_FLAG3)  => "0x6 [SOME_FLAG2 0x4]");

Other than in the unit tests included, no actual usage of the
functionality is added in this commit.

Approved-By: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@efficios.com>
Change-Id: I835de43c33d13bc0c95132f42c3f97318b875779

1 files changed, 66 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h b/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h
index 440ffe09734..700037f6126 100644
--- a/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h
+++ b/gdbsupport/enum-flags.h
@@ -130,6 +130,17 @@ public:
   typedef E enum_type;
   typedef typename enum_underlying_type<enum_type>::type underlying_type;
 
+  /* For to_string.  Maps one enumerator of E to a string.  */
+  struct string_mapping
+  {
+    E flag;
+    const char *str;
+  };
+
+  /* Convenience for to_string implementations, to build a
+     string_mapping array.  */
+#define MAP_ENUM_FLAG(ENUM_FLAG) { ENUM_FLAG, #ENUM_FLAG }
+
 public:
   /* Allow default construction.  */
   constexpr enum_flags ()
@@ -183,6 +194,18 @@ public:
   /* Binary operations involving some unrelated type (which would be a
      bug) are implemented as non-members, and deleted.  */
 
+  /* Convert this object to a std::string, using MAPPING as
+     enumerator-to-string mapping array.  This is not meant to be
+     called directly.  Instead, enum_flags specializations should have
+     their own to_string function wrapping this one, thus hidding the
+     mapping array from callers.
+
+     Note: this is defined outside the template class so it can use
+     the global operators for enum_type, which are only defined after
+     the template class.  */
+  template<size_t N>
+  std::string to_string (const string_mapping (&mapping)[N]) const;
+
 private:
   /* Stored as enum_type because GDB knows to print the bit flags
      neatly if the enum values look like bit flags.  */
@@ -415,6 +438,49 @@ template <typename enum_type, typename any_type,
 	  typename = is_enum_flags_enum_type_t<enum_type>>
 void operator>> (const enum_flags<enum_type> &, const any_type &) = delete;
 
+template<typename E>
+template<size_t N>
+std::string
+enum_flags<E>::to_string (const string_mapping (&mapping)[N]) const
+{
+  enum_type flags = raw ();
+  std::string res = hex_string (flags);
+  res += " [";
+
+  bool need_space = false;
+  for (const auto &entry : mapping)
+    {
+      if ((flags & entry.flag) != 0)
+	{
+	  /* Work with an unsigned version of the underlying type,
+	     because if enum_type's underlying type is signed, op~
+	     won't be defined for it, and, bitwise operations on
+	     signed types are implementation defined.  */
+	  using uns = typename std::make_unsigned<underlying_type>::type;
+	  flags &= (enum_type) ~(uns) entry.flag;
+
+	  if (need_space)
+	    res += " ";
+	  res += entry.str;
+
+	  need_space = true;
+	}
+    }
+
+  /* If there were flags not included in the mapping, print them as
+     a hex number.  */
+  if (flags != 0)
+    {
+      if (need_space)
+	res += " ";
+      res += hex_string (flags);
+    }
+
+  res += "]";
+
+  return res;
+}
+
 #else /* __cplusplus */
 
 /* In C, the flags type is just a typedef for the enum type.  */