gcc 7 adds -Wimplicit-fallthrough=3 to -Wextra. There are a few ways
we could deal with that. After we take into account the need to stay compatible
with older versions of the compiler (and other compilers), I don't think adding
__attribute__((fallthrough)), even as a macro, is worth the trouble. It sticks
out too much, a comment is just as good. But gcc has some very specific
requiremnts how the comment should look. Adjust it the specific form that it
likes. I don't think the extra stuff we had in those comments was adding much
value.
(Note: the documentation seems to be wrong, and seems to describe a different
pattern from the one that is actually used. I guess either the docs or the code
will have to change before gcc 7 is finalized.)
Rather than passing a pointer to return the result, return it directly
from the function calls.
Also, return the result in native endianess, and let the callers care
about the conversion. For hash tables and bloom filters, we don't care,
but in order to keep MAC addresses and DHCP client IDs stable, we
explicitly convert to LE.
Change the "out" parameter from uint8_t[8] to uint64_t. On architectures which
enforce pointer alignment this fixes crashes when we previously cast an
unaligned array to uint64_t*, and on others this should at least improve
performance as the compiler now aligns these properly.
This also simplifies the code in most cases by getting rid of typecasts. The
only place which we can't change is struct duid's en.id, as that is _packed_
and public API, so we can't enforce alignment of the "id" field and have to
use memcpy instead.
Make the API of the new helpers more similar to the old wrapper.
In particular we now return the hash as a byte string to avoid
any endianness problems.
The last compression is special as it deals with the length byte, and padding. Move
it to the finalization step in preparation for making compression decomposable.
Yu Watanabe