[PATCH 2/2] Add escaped character support to character literals

Anton Staaf robotboy at chromium.org
Fri Jun 24 09:20:39 EST 2011


This adds support for escaped characters in character literals using
'\r', '\012' and '\x4a' style escapes.

Signed-off-by: Anton Staaf <robotboy at chromium.org>
Cc: Jon Loeliger <jdl at jdl.com>
---
 Documentation/manual.txt |    4 +-
 data.c                   |   77 +-----------------------------------
 dtc-lexer.l              |    8 ++++
 util.c                   |   98 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 util.h                   |    5 ++
 5 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 78 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/manual.txt b/Documentation/manual.txt
index f38a995..34f88de 100644
--- a/Documentation/manual.txt
+++ b/Documentation/manual.txt
@@ -216,8 +216,8 @@ may be specified using a prefix "d#" for decimal, "b#" for binary,
 and "o#" for octal.  Character literals are supported in
 byte sequences using the C language character literal syntax of 'a'.
 
-Strings support common escape sequences from C: "\n", "\t", "\r",
-"\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)".
+Strings and byte sequences support common escape sequences from C:
+"\n", "\t", "\r", "\(octal value)", "\x(hex value)".
 
 
 4.3) Labels and References
diff --git a/data.c b/data.c
index fe555e8..471f6c3 100644
--- a/data.c
+++ b/data.c
@@ -68,40 +68,6 @@ struct data data_copy_mem(const char *mem, int len)
 	return d;
 }
 
-static char get_oct_char(const char *s, int *i)
-{
-	char x[4];
-	char *endx;
-	long val;
-
-	x[3] = '\0';
-	strncpy(x, s + *i, 3);
-
-	val = strtol(x, &endx, 8);
-
-	assert(endx > x);
-
-	(*i) += endx - x;
-	return val;
-}
-
-static char get_hex_char(const char *s, int *i)
-{
-	char x[3];
-	char *endx;
-	long val;
-
-	x[2] = '\0';
-	strncpy(x, s + *i, 2);
-
-	val = strtol(x, &endx, 16);
-	if (!(endx  > x))
-		die("\\x used with no following hex digits\n");
-
-	(*i) += endx - x;
-	return val;
-}
-
 struct data data_copy_escape_string(const char *s, int len)
 {
 	int i = 0;
@@ -119,48 +85,7 @@ struct data data_copy_escape_string(const char *s, int len)
 			continue;
 		}
 
-		c = s[i++];
-		assert(c);
-		switch (c) {
-		case 'a':
-			q[d.len++] = '\a';
-			break;
-		case 'b':
-			q[d.len++] = '\b';
-			break;
-		case 't':
-			q[d.len++] = '\t';
-			break;
-		case 'n':
-			q[d.len++] = '\n';
-			break;
-		case 'v':
-			q[d.len++] = '\v';
-			break;
-		case 'f':
-			q[d.len++] = '\f';
-			break;
-		case 'r':
-			q[d.len++] = '\r';
-			break;
-		case '0':
-		case '1':
-		case '2':
-		case '3':
-		case '4':
-		case '5':
-		case '6':
-		case '7':
-			i--; /* need to re-read the first digit as
-			      * part of the octal value */
-			q[d.len++] = get_oct_char(s, &i);
-			break;
-		case 'x':
-			q[d.len++] = get_hex_char(s, &i);
-			break;
-		default:
-			q[d.len++] = c;
-		}
+                q[d.len++] = get_escape_char(s, &i);
 	}
 
 	q[d.len++] = '\0';
diff --git a/dtc-lexer.l b/dtc-lexer.l
index 1276c6f..b6206ce 100644
--- a/dtc-lexer.l
+++ b/dtc-lexer.l
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ PATHCHAR	({PROPNODECHAR}|[/])
 LABEL		[a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
 STRING		\"([^\\"]|\\.)*\"
 CHAR_LITERAL	'[^\\']'
+CHAR_ESCAPED	'\\([^']+|')'
 WS		[[:space:]]
 COMMENT		"/*"([^*]|\*+[^*/])*\*+"/"
 LINECOMMENT	"//".*\n
@@ -136,6 +137,13 @@ static int pop_input_file(void);
 			return DT_BYTE;
 		}
 
+<BYTESTRING>{CHAR_ESCAPED} {
+			DPRINT("Character escaped literal: %s\n", yytext);
+			yylval.byte = get_escape_char_exact(yytext+1, yyleng-2);
+			DPRINT("Byte: %02x\n", (int)yylval.byte);
+			return DT_BYTE;
+		}
+
 <BYTESTRING>"]"	{
 			DPRINT("/BYTESTRING\n");
 			BEGIN_DEFAULT();
diff --git a/util.c b/util.c
index d7ac27d..2c58007 100644
--- a/util.c
+++ b/util.c
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <stdarg.h>
 #include <string.h>
+#include <assert.h>
 
 #include "util.h"
 
@@ -57,3 +58,100 @@ char *join_path(const char *path, const char *name)
 	memcpy(str+lenp, name, lenn+1);
 	return str;
 }
+
+char get_oct_char(const char *s, int *i)
+{
+	char x[4];
+	char *endx;
+	long val;
+
+	x[3] = '\0';
+	strncpy(x, s + *i, 3);
+
+	val = strtol(x, &endx, 8);
+
+	assert(endx > x);
+
+	(*i) += endx - x;
+	return val;
+}
+
+char get_hex_char(const char *s, int *i)
+{
+	char x[3];
+	char *endx;
+	long val;
+
+	x[2] = '\0';
+	strncpy(x, s + *i, 2);
+
+	val = strtol(x, &endx, 16);
+	if (!(endx  > x))
+		die("\\x used with no following hex digits\n");
+
+	(*i) += endx - x;
+	return val;
+}
+
+char get_escape_char(const char *s, int *i)
+{
+	char	c = s[*i];
+        int	j = *i + 1;
+        char	val;
+
+        assert(c);
+        switch (c) {
+        case 'a':
+		val = '\a';
+		break;
+        case 'b':
+		val = '\b';
+		break;
+        case 't':
+		val = '\t';
+		break;
+        case 'n':
+		val = '\n';
+		break;
+        case 'v':
+		val = '\v';
+		break;
+        case 'f':
+		val = '\f';
+		break;
+        case 'r':
+		val = '\r';
+		break;
+        case '0':
+        case '1':
+        case '2':
+        case '3':
+        case '4':
+        case '5':
+        case '6':
+        case '7':
+		j--;
+		val = get_oct_char(s, &j);
+		break;
+        case 'x':
+		val = get_hex_char(s, &j);
+		break;
+        default:
+		val = c;
+        }
+
+	(*i) = j;
+	return val;
+}
+
+char get_escape_char_exact(const char *s, int len)
+{
+	int	j = 1; //skip intial "\"
+        char	c = get_escape_char(s, &j);
+
+	if (j != len)
+		die("Extra characters at end of character literal '%s' "
+                    "(%d != %d)\n", s, j, len);
+
+	return c;
+}
diff --git a/util.h b/util.h
index 9cead84..c60ad9d 100644
--- a/util.h
+++ b/util.h
@@ -53,4 +53,9 @@ static inline void *xrealloc(void *p, size_t len)
 extern char *xstrdup(const char *s);
 extern char *join_path(const char *path, const char *name);
 
+extern char get_oct_char(const char *s, int *i);
+extern char get_hex_char(const char *s, int *i);
+extern char get_escape_char(const char *s, int *i);
+extern char get_escape_char_exact(const char *s, int len);
+
 #endif /* _UTIL_H */
-- 
1.7.3.1



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