tree 676e8013b24cef7697dfe12a624019cf8a13d8ee
parent a189696768c2aea88202c4e9530d76a69bd1947e
author Chau Ly <chaul@amperecomputing.com> 1742569077 +0000
committer Andrew Jeffery <andrew@codeconstruct.com.au> 1743052513 +1030

msgbuf: Add pldm_msgbuf_extract_uint*_to_size APIs

Add pldm_msgbuf_extract_uint8_to_size(),
pldm_msgbuf_extract_uint16_to_size() and
pldm_msgbuf_extract_uint32_to_size() APIs to msgbuf API list. These are
the extractors which extract uint8_t/uint16_t/uint32_t to the size_t
destination. We mostly use size_t as the type to hold object size, but
extracting data to a size_t variable has not been properly supported.
These new APIs can bypass this limitation.

Example:

Extract from buffer the length of a variable length data represented by
`variable_field` struct, which has a field of size_t to represent
length.

Change-Id: I89f2600602bacf39f1f915a3496231dcc63fd6aa
Signed-off-by: Chau Ly <chaul@amperecomputing.com>