i965: Allow C++ type safety in the use of enum brw_urb_write_flags.

(From a suggestion by Francisco Jerez)

If an enum represents a bitfield of flags, e.g.:

enum E {
  A = 1,
  B = 2,
  C = 4,
  D = 8,
};

then C++ normally prohibits statements like this:

enum E x = A | B;

because A and B are implicitly converted to ints before OR-ing them,
and an int can't be stored in an enum without a type cast.  C, on the
other hand, allows an int to be implicitly converted to an enum
without casting.

In the past we've dealt with this situation by storing flag bitfields
as ints.  This avoids ugly casting at the expense of some type safety
that C++ would normally have offered (e.g. we get no warning if we
accidentally use the wrong enum type).

However, we can get the best of both worlds if we override the |
operator.  The ugly casting is confined to the operator overload, and
we still get the benefit of C++ making sure we don't use the wrong
enum type.

v2: Remove unnecessary comment and unnecessary use of "enum" keyword.
Use static_cast.

Reviewed-by: Chad Versace <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Francisco Jerez <[email protected]>

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