intel · lukevalenty · Mar 31, 2025 · Mar 27, 2025 · Mar 27, 2025 · Mar 27, 2025
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -32,24 +32,6 @@ set(GEN_STR_CATALOG
     ${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/tools/gen_str_catalog.py
     CACHE FILEPATH "Location of script to generate a string catalog")
 
-add_library(cib_sc INTERFACE)
-target_compile_features(cib_sc INTERFACE cxx_std_20)
-target_link_libraries_system(cib_sc INTERFACE fmt::fmt-header-only stdx)
-
-target_sources(
-    cib_sc
-    INTERFACE FILE_SET
-              sc
-              TYPE
-              HEADERS
-              BASE_DIRS
-              include
-              FILES
-              include/sc/format.hpp
-              include/sc/fwd.hpp
-              include/sc/lazy_string_format.hpp
-              include/sc/string_constant.hpp)
-
 add_library(cib_match INTERFACE)
 target_compile_features(cib_match INTERFACE cxx_std_20)
 target_link_libraries_system(cib_match INTERFACE stdx)
@@ -241,7 +223,7 @@ target_sources(
 
 add_library(cib_flow INTERFACE)
 target_compile_features(cib_flow INTERFACE cxx_std_20)
-target_link_libraries_system(cib_flow INTERFACE cib_log cib_nexus cib_sc stdx)
+target_link_libraries_system(cib_flow INTERFACE cib_log cib_nexus stdx)
 
 target_sources(
     cib_flow
@@ -266,14 +248,7 @@ target_sources(
 
 add_library(cib_seq INTERFACE)
 target_compile_features(cib_seq INTERFACE cxx_std_20)
-target_link_libraries_system(
-    cib_seq
-    INTERFACE
-    cib_flow
-    cib_log
-    cib_nexus
-    cib_sc
-    stdx)
+target_link_libraries_system(cib_seq INTERFACE cib_flow cib_log cib_nexus stdx)
 
 target_sources(
     cib_seq
@@ -303,7 +278,6 @@ target_link_libraries_system(
     cib_match
     cib_msg
     cib_nexus
-    cib_sc
     cib_seq
     concurrency
     fmt::fmt-header-only
@@ -333,7 +307,6 @@ if(PROJECT_IS_TOP_LEVEL)
     clang_tidy_interface(cib_match)
     clang_tidy_interface(cib_msg)
     clang_tidy_interface(cib_nexus)
-    clang_tidy_interface(cib_sc)
     clang_tidy_interface(cib_seq)
 
     # Enable functional and performance test suites.

diff --git a/docs/index.adoc b/docs/index.adoc
@@ -13,5 +13,4 @@ include::logging.adoc[]
 include::interrupts.adoc[]
 include::match.adoc[]
 include::message.adoc[]
-include::sc.adoc[]
 include::implementation_details.adoc[]
diff --git a/docs/intro.adoc b/docs/intro.adoc
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ _cib_ contains several parts that work together:
 - xref:interrupt.adoc#_the_interrupt_library[`interrupt`]
 - xref:match.adoc#_the_match_library[`match`]
 - xref:message.adoc#_the_message_library[`message`]
-- xref:sc.adoc#_the_sc_string_constant_library[`sc` (string constant)]
 
 === Sub-library DAG
 
@@ -58,13 +57,11 @@ library that contains all the functionality.
 ----
 flowchart BT
   nexus(cib_nexus)
-  sc(cib_sc)
   log(cib_log)
   match(cib_match)
   lookup(cib_lookup)
 
   flow(cib_flow) --> nexus
-  flow --> sc
   flow --> log
 
   log_fmt(cib_log_fmt) --> log

diff --git a/docs/logging.adoc b/docs/logging.adoc
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ xref:logging.adoc#_logging_environments[environment].
 
 The first two runtime parameters receive preprocessor `\__FILE_\_` and `__LINE__` values
 respectively. The `msg` argument is a structure containing a
-xref:sc.adoc#_formatting_strings[compile-time format string] and runtime
+compile-time format string and runtime
 arguments to be interpolated into it. It supports an `apply` function, so one
 way to implement `log` is:
 
@@ -185,11 +185,52 @@ struct my_struct {
 }
 ----
 
-=== String data
-
-On a constrained system, space for text can be at a premium. The `sc` library
-and the MIPI Sys-T logger combine to
-xref:sc.adoc#_efficient_logging_with_mipi_sys_t[solve this problem].
+=== Efficient logging with MIPI Sys-T
+
+On a constrained system, space for text can be limited-to-nonexistent. `cib`
+uses `stdx::ct_format` and the
+https://github.com/intel/compile-time-init-build/tree/main/include/log/catalog/mipi_encoder.hpp[MIPI
+Sys-T logging config] to solve this problem.
+
+- First, each string constant contains string character data in its type.
+- The MIPI logger calls the function template specialization
+  https://github.com/intel/compile-time-init-build/blob/main/include/log/catalog/catalog.hpp[`catalog`]
+  to get the catalog ID corresponding to each string constant.
+
+But: the `catalog` function template is just that -- only a template -- to
+begin with. It is specialized as follows:
+
+- The application is built as a library.
+- Running `nm` on that library reveals missing symbols: precisely the function
+  specializations that are required for all the string constants.
+- Those symbols are used to generate the template specializations in another
+  file, which itself is compiled into a library.
+- String data is recovered from the symbol types and used to generate the
+  catalog collateral in XML and/or JSON format.
+- Link-time optimization inlines the `catalog` function template
+  specializations, each of which is a one-line function that returns a
+  catalog ID.
+
+Thus no string data exists in the executable, but the correct catalog IDs are
+used in logging, and the remote log handler can reconstitute the actual strings.
+The XML and JSON collateral also contains information about any runtime
+arguments that need to be interpolated into the string and whose values are sent
+by the MIPI Sys-T logger after the catalog ID.
+
+==== Tooling support
+
+The process of generating log strings from the type information revealed by
+missing symbols is automated by a
+https://github.com/intel/compile-time-init-build/blob/main/tools/gen_str_catalog.py[python
+script] provided and by a
+https://github.com/intel/compile-time-init-build/blob/main/cmake/string_catalog.cmake[CMake
+wrapper function (`gen_str_catalog`)] that drives the process. See
+https://github.com/intel/compile-time-init-build/blob/main/test/CMakeLists.txt[the
+test] that exercises that functionality for an example.
+
+NOTE: This process assigns IDs to both strings and
+xref:logging.adoc#_modules[log modules]. `catalog` is specialized for catalog
+IDs; `module` is specialized for module IDs.
 
 === Version logging
 

diff --git a/docs/sc.adoc b/docs/sc.adoc
diff --git a/include/flow/graph_builder.hpp b/include/flow/graph_builder.hpp
@@ -169,12 +169,10 @@ struct graph_builder {
 
     template <typename T>
     constexpr static auto error_steps =
-        stdx::transform([](auto N) { return stdx::ct_string_from_type(N); },
-                        T{})
-            .join(stdx::ct_string{""}, [](auto x, auto y) {
-                using namespace stdx::literals;
-                return x + ", "_cts + y;
-            });
+        T{}.join(stdx::cts_t<"">{}, [](auto x, auto y) {
+            using namespace stdx::literals;
+            return x + ", "_ctst + y;
+        });
 
     constexpr static void check_for_missing_nodes(auto nodes,
                                                   auto mentioned_nodes) {

diff --git a/include/flow/graphviz_builder.hpp b/include/flow/graphviz_builder.hpp
@@ -20,14 +20,14 @@ struct graphviz_builder {
         nodes_t sinks{};
         for_each(
             [&]<typename Node>(Node const &) {
-                sources.insert(Node::name_t::value);
-                sinks.insert(Node::name_t::value);
+                sources.emplace(Node::name_t::value);
+                sinks.emplace(Node::name_t::value);
             },
             nodes);
         for_each(
             [&]<typename Edge>(Edge const &) {
-                sinks.erase(Edge::source_t::name_t::value);
-                sources.erase(Edge::dest_t::name_t::value);
+                sinks.erase(std::string_view{Edge::source_t::name_t::value});
+                sources.erase(std::string_view{Edge::dest_t::name_t::value});
             },
             edges);
 
@@ -39,9 +39,9 @@ struct graphviz_builder {
         }
         for_each(
             [&]<typename Edge>(Edge const &) {
-                output += std::string{Edge::source_t::name_t::value};
+                output += std::string_view{Edge::source_t::name_t::value};
                 output += " -> ";
-                output += std::string{Edge::dest_t::name_t::value};
+                output += std::string_view{Edge::dest_t::name_t::value};
                 output += '\n';
             },
             edges);

diff --git a/include/flow/step.hpp b/include/flow/step.hpp
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
 #include <flow/common.hpp>
 #include <flow/log.hpp>
 #include <flow/subgraph_identity.hpp>
-#include <sc/string_constant.hpp>
 
 #include <stdx/compiler.hpp>
 #include <stdx/ct_string.hpp>
@@ -18,10 +17,7 @@ template <stdx::ct_string Type, stdx::ct_string Name,
           subgraph_identity Identity, typename Cond, typename F>
 struct ct_node {
     using is_subgraph = void;
-    using type_t =
-        decltype(stdx::ct_string_to_type<Type, sc::string_constant>());
-    using name_t =
-        decltype(stdx::ct_string_to_type<Name, sc::string_constant>());
+    using name_t = stdx::cts_t<Name>;
     using func_t = F;
 
     constexpr static auto ct_type = Type;