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authorPeter Harris <pharris@opentext.com>2013-04-11 09:52:57 -0400
committerPeter Harris <pharris@opentext.com>2013-04-16 14:37:05 -0400
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Allow multiple <enumref> in a <bitcase>
Signed-off-by: Peter Harris <pharris@opentext.com>
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@@ -229,13 +229,18 @@ enum; the value is restricted to one of the constants named in the enum.
<switch> instead for new protocol definitions.
<switch name="identifier"> switch expression
- <bitcase> bitcase expression, fields </bitcase> </switch>
+ <bitcase> bitcase expression(s), fields </bitcase> </switch>
This element represents conditional inclusion of fields. It can be viewed
as sequence of multiple ifs: if ( switch expression & bitcase expression )
- is equal to bitcase expression, bitcase fields are included in structure.
- It can be used only as the last field of structure. New protocol definitions
- should prefer to use this instead of <valueparam>.
+ is non-zero, bitcase fields are included in structure. It can be used only
+ as the last field of a structure.
+
+ When a bitcase includes multiple <enumref> clauses, the contents of the
+ bitcase are only present once regardless of the number of bitcase expressions
+ that match.
+
+ New protocol definitions should prefer to use this instead of <valueparam>.
Expressions
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