libctf: restructure error handling to reduce relocations

Jose Marchesi noted that the traditional-Unix error array in ctf-error.c
introduces one reloc per error to initialize the array: 58 so far.  We
can reduce this to zero using an array of carefully-sized individual
members which is used to construct a string table, that is then
referenced by the lookup functions: but doing this automatically is a
pain.

Bruno Haible wrote suitable code years ago: I got permission to reuse it
(Bruno says "... which I hereby put in the public domain"); I modified
it a tiny bit (similarly to what Ulrich Drepper did in the dsohowto
text, but I redid it from scratch), commented it up a bit, and shifted
the error table into that form, migrating it into the new file
ctf-error.h.

This has the advantage that it spotted both typos in the text of the
errors in the comments in ctf-api.h and typos in the error defines in
the comments in ctf-error.c, and places where the two were simply not
in sync.  All are now fixed.

One new constant exists in ctf-api.h: CTF_NERR, since the old method of
working out the number of errors in ctf-error.c was no longer usable,
and it seems that the number of CTF errors is something users might
reasonably want as well.  It should be pretty easy to keep up to date as
new errors are introduced.

include/
	* ctf-api.h (ECTF_*): Improve comments.
	(ECTF_NERR): New.

libctf/
	* ctf-error.c: Include <stddef.h>, for offsetof.
	(_ctf_errlist): Migrate to...
	(_ctf_errlist_t): ... this.
	(_ctf_erridx): New, indexes into _ctf_errlist_t.
	(_ctf_nerr): Remove.
	(ctf_errmsg): Adjust accordingly.
	* Makefile.am (BUILT_SOURCES): Note...
	(ctf-error.h): ... this new rule.
	* Makefile.in: Regenerate.
	* mkerrors.sed: New, process ctf-api.h to generate ctf-error.h.
	* .gitignore: New, ignore ctf-error.h.

2 files changed, 59 insertions, 52 deletions

diff --git a/include/ChangeLog b/include/ChangeLog
index e2aabdc..f5be0c0 100644
--- a/include/ChangeLog
+++ b/include/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,10 @@
 2020-07-22  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
 
+	* ctf-api.h (ECTF_*): Improve comments.
+	(ECTF_NERR): New.
+
+2020-07-22  Nick Alcock  <nick.alcock@oracle.com>
+
 	* ctf-api.h: Fix typos in comments.
 
 2020-07-22  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
diff --git a/include/ctf-api.h b/include/ctf-api.h
index bb1cf0f..2e3e28b 100644
--- a/include/ctf-api.h
+++ b/include/ctf-api.h
@@ -153,60 +153,62 @@ typedef struct ctf_snapshot_id
 
 enum
   {
-   ECTF_FMT = ECTF_BASE,	/* File is not in CTF or ELF format.  */
-   ECTF_BFDERR,			/* BFD error.  */
-   ECTF_CTFVERS,		/* CTF version is more recent than libctf.  */
-   ECTF_BFD_AMBIGUOUS,		/* Ambiguous BFD target.  */
-   ECTF_SYMTAB,			/* Symbol table uses invalid entry size.  */
-   ECTF_SYMBAD,			/* Symbol table data buffer invalid.  */
-   ECTF_STRBAD,			/* String table data buffer invalid.  */
-   ECTF_CORRUPT,		/* File data corruption detected.  */
-   ECTF_NOCTFDATA,		/* ELF file does not contain CTF data.  */
-   ECTF_NOCTFBUF,		/* Buffer does not contain CTF data.  */
-   ECTF_NOSYMTAB,		/* Symbol table data is not available.  */
-   ECTF_NOPARENT,		/* Parent CTF container is not available.  */
-   ECTF_DMODEL,			/* Data model mismatch.  */
-   ECTF_LINKADDEDLATE,		/* File added to link too late.  */
-   ECTF_ZALLOC,			/* Failed to allocate (de)compression buffer.  */
-   ECTF_DECOMPRESS,		/* Failed to decompress CTF data.  */
-   ECTF_STRTAB,			/* String table for this string is missing.  */
-   ECTF_BADNAME,		/* String offset is corrupt w.r.t. strtab.  */
-   ECTF_BADID,			/* Invalid type ID number.  */
-   ECTF_NOTSOU,			/* Type is not a struct or union.  */
-   ECTF_NOTENUM,		/* Type is not an enum.  */
-   ECTF_NOTSUE,			/* Type is not a struct, union, or enum.  */
-   ECTF_NOTINTFP,		/* Type is not an integer, float, or enum.  */
-   ECTF_NOTARRAY,		/* Type is not an array.  */
-   ECTF_NOTREF,			/* Type does not reference another type.  */
-   ECTF_NAMELEN,		/* Buffer is too small to hold type name.  */
-   ECTF_NOTYPE,			/* No type found corresponding to name.  */
-   ECTF_SYNTAX,			/* Syntax error in type name.  */
-   ECTF_NOTFUNC,		/* Symbol entry or type is not a function.  */
-   ECTF_NOFUNCDAT,		/* No func info available for function.  */
-   ECTF_NOTDATA,		/* Symtab entry does not refer to a data obj.  */
-   ECTF_NOTYPEDAT,		/* No type info available for object.  */
-   ECTF_NOLABEL,		/* No label found corresponding to name.  */
-   ECTF_NOLABELDATA,		/* File does not contain any labels.  */
-   ECTF_NOTSUP,			/* Feature not supported.  */
-   ECTF_NOENUMNAM,		/* Enum element name not found.  */
-   ECTF_NOMEMBNAM,		/* Member name not found.  */
-   ECTF_RDONLY,			/* CTF container is read-only.  */
-   ECTF_DTFULL,			/* CTF type is full (no more members allowed).  */
-   ECTF_FULL,			/* CTF container is full.  */
-   ECTF_DUPLICATE,		/* Duplicate member or variable name.  */
-   ECTF_CONFLICT,		/* Conflicting type definition present.  */
-   ECTF_OVERROLLBACK,		/* Attempt to roll back past a ctf_update.  */
-   ECTF_COMPRESS,		/* Failed to compress CTF data.  */
-   ECTF_ARCREATE,		/* Error creating CTF archive.  */
-   ECTF_ARNNAME,		/* Name not found in CTF archive.  */
-   ECTF_SLICEOVERFLOW,		/* Overflow of type bitness or offset in slice.  */
-   ECTF_DUMPSECTUNKNOWN,	/* Unknown section number in dump.  */
-   ECTF_DUMPSECTCHANGED,	/* Section changed in middle of dump.  */
-   ECTF_NOTYET,			/* Feature not yet implemented.  */
-   ECTF_INTERNAL,		/* Internal error in link.  */
-   ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE	/* Type not representable in CTF.  */
+   ECTF_FMT = ECTF_BASE, /* File is not in CTF or ELF format.  */
+   ECTF_BFDERR,		/* BFD error.  */
+   ECTF_CTFVERS,	/* CTF dict version is too new for libctf.  */
+   ECTF_BFD_AMBIGUOUS,	/* Ambiguous BFD target.  */
+   ECTF_SYMTAB,		/* Symbol table uses invalid entry size.  */
+   ECTF_SYMBAD,		/* Symbol table data buffer is not valid.  */
+   ECTF_STRBAD,		/* String table data buffer is not valid.  */
+   ECTF_CORRUPT,	/* File data structure corruption detected.  */
+   ECTF_NOCTFDATA,	/* File does not contain CTF data.  */
+   ECTF_NOCTFBUF,	/* Buffer does not contain CTF data.  */
+   ECTF_NOSYMTAB,	/* Symbol table information is not available.  */
+   ECTF_NOPARENT,	/* The parent CTF dictionary is unavailable.  */
+   ECTF_DMODEL,		/* Data model mismatch.  */
+   ECTF_LINKADDEDLATE,	/* File added to link too late.  */
+   ECTF_ZALLOC,		/* Failed to allocate (de)compression buffer.  */
+   ECTF_DECOMPRESS,	/* Failed to decompress CTF data.  */
+   ECTF_STRTAB,		/* External string table is not available.  */
+   ECTF_BADNAME,	/* String name offset is corrupt.  */
+   ECTF_BADID,		/* Invalid type identifier.  */
+   ECTF_NOTSOU,		/* Type is not a struct or union.  */
+   ECTF_NOTENUM,	/* Type is not an enum.  */
+   ECTF_NOTSUE,		/* Type is not a struct, union, or enum.  */
+   ECTF_NOTINTFP,	/* Type is not an integer, float, or enum.  */
+   ECTF_NOTARRAY,	/* Type is not an array.  */
+   ECTF_NOTREF,		/* Type does not reference another type.  */
+   ECTF_NAMELEN,	/* Buffer is too small to hold type name.  */
+   ECTF_NOTYPE,		/* No type found corresponding to name.  */
+   ECTF_SYNTAX,		/* Syntax error in type name.  */
+   ECTF_NOTFUNC,	/* Symbol table entry or type is not a function.  */
+   ECTF_NOFUNCDAT,	/* No function information available for function.  */
+   ECTF_NOTDATA,	/* Symbol table entry does not refer to a data object.  */
+   ECTF_NOTYPEDAT,	/* No type information available for symbol.  */
+   ECTF_NOLABEL,	/* No label found corresponding to name.  */
+   ECTF_NOLABELDATA,	/* File does not contain any labels.  */
+   ECTF_NOTSUP,		/* Feature not supported.  */
+   ECTF_NOENUMNAM,	/* Enum element name not found.  */
+   ECTF_NOMEMBNAM,	/* Member name not found.  */
+   ECTF_RDONLY,		/* CTF container is read-only.  */
+   ECTF_DTFULL,		/* CTF type is full (no more members allowed).  */
+   ECTF_FULL,		/* CTF container is full.  */
+   ECTF_DUPLICATE,	/* Duplicate member or variable name.  */
+   ECTF_CONFLICT,	/* Conflicting type is already defined.  */
+   ECTF_OVERROLLBACK,	/* Attempt to roll back past a ctf_update.  */
+   ECTF_COMPRESS,	/* Failed to compress CTF data.  */
+   ECTF_ARCREATE,	/* Error creating CTF archive.  */
+   ECTF_ARNNAME,	/* Name not found in CTF archive.  */
+   ECTF_SLICEOVERFLOW,	/* Overflow of type bitness or offset in slice.  */
+   ECTF_DUMPSECTUNKNOWN, /* Unknown section number in dump.  */
+   ECTF_DUMPSECTCHANGED, /* Section changed in middle of dump.  */
+   ECTF_NOTYET,		/* Feature not yet implemented.  */
+   ECTF_INTERNAL,	/* Internal error in link.  */
+   ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE /* Type not representable in CTF.  */
   };
 
+#define ECTF_NERR (ECTF_NONREPRESENTABLE - ECTF_BASE + 1)	/* Count of CTF errors.  */
+
 /* The CTF data model is inferred to be the caller's data model or the data
    model of the given object, unless ctf_setmodel() is explicitly called.  */
 #define	CTF_MODEL_ILP32 1	/* Object data model is ILP32.  */