On Fri, May 01, 2020 at 10:59:15PM +0200, Michael Braun wrote:
> This enables commands like
>
> nft set bridge t s4 '{typeof vlan id . ip daddr; elements = { 3567 .
> 1.2.3.4 }; }'
>
> Which would previously fail with
> Error: can not use variable sized data types (integer) in concat
> expressions
Now that typeof is in place, the integer_type can be set to 32-bits
(word size).
I would prefer to not expose the integer type definition to sets:
> + set s4 {
> + type integer . ipv4_addr
> + elements = { 0 . 13.239.0.0 }
> + }
> +
Users do not need to know that an 8-bit payload field is actually
aligned to 32-bits. Or that osf name is actually and 32-bit id number.
diff --git a/src/datatype.c b/src/datatype.c
index 723ac649ea42..6a9b0239d37c 100644
--- a/src/datatype.c
+++ b/src/datatype.c
@@ -397,6 +397,7 @@ const struct datatype integer_type = {
.type = TYPE_INTEGER,
.name = "integer",
.desc = "integer",
+ .size = 4 * BITS_PER_BYTE,
.print = integer_type_print,
.json = integer_type_json,
.parse = integer_type_parse,
