Added array_as_byte config options.

[rzr]

[Anders Esbensen]

Option to check arrays by the number of bytes instead of number of elements.

[Philippe Coval]

This change was applied to a fork (ths_cmock) used in a Z-Wave project. It was needed to generate mocks from a header that used annonymous structures.

The observed issue was:

(...)_mock.c:486:123: error: invalid application of ‘sizeof’ to incomplete type ‘struct (...)’

Which was just declared in relative header.

The array_as_byte feature prevent this error.

Author: Anders Esbensen [email protected]
Origin-Upstream: #503
Origin-SiliconLabs: v2.5.1-74-ga078d10
Relate-to: SiliconLabsSoftware/z-wave-protocol-controller#75

[mvandervoord]

Hi @rzr -- thanks for the contribution!

I'd be interested in hearing more about your use-case. In particular, was it not possible to simply set up a treat_as for the struct type(s) to _MEMORY? I believe that would accomplish the same thing?

If this would have also worked, I'll try to improve the documentation to make this ability more clear.

Assuming that this does cover a use-case that isn't otherwise handled, there are a number of failing self-tests related to your changes to utils. Are you able to look into those or do you need me to step in?

[rzr]

Ok thank for feedback I will give a try to your hint soon or later.

[andersesbensen]

I did this code change years back i don’t exactly remember what this was about. I think it was became we had some structs which had an unpredictable length.

Maybe the memory check function can be used as well. But i think there was a reason I did this

[mvandervoord]

I don't believe this is adding anything that we don't have already? I appreciate the work. Perhaps it was solving an issue that we previously had, but has since been handled other ways?