8.4 Bit Maps and Enumerations

AutoGen provides two templates for managing enumerations and bit maps (flag words). They produce an enumeration of the enum or #defines for the bit maps, plus conversion functions for converting a string into one of these values or converting one of these values into a human readable string. Finally, for enumerations, you may specify one or more sets of dispatching functions that will be selected by identifying a keyword prefix of a string (see section the dispatch attribute in Strings to Enums and Back).

There is a separate project that produces a GDB add-on that will add these capabilities into GDB for bit masks. (GDB does just fine with enumerations.)

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