Yesterday's commit 52ee636b09 which further extended the huge
pile of arity-specific annoying wrapper macros pushed me over the edge
and inspired me to give some harder thought to finding a way to handle
all arities at once. And this time I found one!
The new technique changes the syntax of the function specifications in
testcrypt.h. In particular, they now have to specify a _name_ for each
parameter as well as a type, because the macros generating the C
marshalling wrappers will need a structure field for each parameter
and cpp isn't flexible enough to generate names for those fields
automatically. Rather than tediously name them arg1, arg2 etc, I've
reused the names of the parameters from the prototypes or definitions
of the underlying real functions (via a one-off auto-extraction
process starting from the output of 'clang -Xclang -dump-ast' plus
some manual polishing), which means testcrypt.h is now a bit more
self-documenting.
The testcrypt.py end of the mechanism is rewritten to eat the new
format. Since it's got more complicated syntax and nested parens and
things, I've written something a bit like a separated lexer/parser
system in place of the previous crude regex matcher, which should
enforce that the whole header file really does conform to the
restricted syntax it has to fit into.
The new system uses a lot less code in testcrypt.c, but I've made up
for that by also writing a long comment explaining how it works, which
was another thing the previous system lacked! Similarly, the new
testcrypt.h has some long-overdue instructions at the top.
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