Most branching instructions (FI_CONDITION, FI_AND, FI_OR) linearize its
branches in a recursive way, while FI_SWITCH branches are linearized
from parser even before the switch instruction is allocated.
Change linearization of FI_SWITCH branches to make it similar to other
branching instructions. This also fixes an issue with constant
switch evaluation, where linearized branch is mistaken for
non-linearized during switch construction.
Thanks to Jiten Kumar Pathy for the bugreport.
This is a major change of how the filters are interpreted. If everything
works how it should, it should not affect you unless you are hacking the
filters themselves.
Anyway, this change should make a huge improvement in the filter performance
as previous benchmarks showed that our major problem lies in the
recursion itself.
There are also some changes in nest and protocols, related mostly to
spreading const declarations throughout the whole BIRD and also to
refactored dynamic attribute definitions. The need of these came up
during the whole work and it is too difficult to split out these
not-so-related changes.
We set buffer->pos to buffer->end in function buffer_print() when
bvsnprintf() failed, so there would be uninitialized memory between
the old buffer->pos and the current buffer->pos.
Changes the time complexity of the algorithm from O(n^2) to O(n*log(n)).
This speeds up loading of huge DEC-IX config from 128 s to 15 s. It also
makes the code significantly simpler.