This patchset is based off the work to adjust how we do argument parsing inside EAL. To enable argparse to be effectively used for EAL, we have new features and some changes in the first two patches, which are relatively small - though are ABI/API affecting.
These add support for saving off strings and boolean values, have argparse stop parsing at a "--", and finally have argparse return the number of arguments actually parsed on success. The third patch is a bigger change. It was inspired by the fact that when adding the boolean and string support we had to update some "MAX" value defines used in the code. This is obviously not good from an ABI/API perspective, once the library becomes part of the stable ABI. In order to remove these MAX values, patch 3 looks to replace the #define values with enums - which means some rework splitting the various flags into separate categories, and similarly splitting the single "flags" field with separate fields specifying if an argument value is required, what type that value should have, and then a final smaller field for any additional modifiers. v3: additional doc updates to patch 3 v2: minor changes to patch 2 (see log at end of that patch) Bruce Richardson (3): argparse: add support for string and boolean args argparse: make argparse EAL-args compatible argparse: use enums to remove max-value defines in lists app/test/test_argparse.c | 229 ++++++++++++++----------- doc/guides/prog_guide/argparse_lib.rst | 36 ++-- doc/guides/rel_notes/release_25_07.rst | 50 ++++++ examples/dma/dmafwd.c | 20 +-- examples/flow_filtering/main.c | 4 +- lib/argparse/rte_argparse.c | 184 ++++++++++++-------- lib/argparse/rte_argparse.h | 97 ++++++----- 7 files changed, 379 insertions(+), 241 deletions(-) -- 2.48.1
