[PATCH v2 0/3] Support character literals

[David Gibson]

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 08:51:54AM -0700, Anton Staaf wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 10:03 PM, David Gibson
> <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 01:18:42PM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> >> On Wed, Sep 07, 2011 at 04:15:37PM -0700, Anton Staaf wrote:
> >> >     These patches add simple and escaped character literal parsing support
> >> > to the dtc for cell lists and bytestrings.  The first patch refactors the
> >> > string parsing code in data.c to expose the more primitive character parsing
> >> > code for use in the later patches.  I have left the bytestring support in
> >> > place but my hope is that it is now separate enough to be discussed
> >> > independantly of the refactor and cell list changes.
> >> >
> >> >     Thanks,
> >> >         Anton
> >> >
> >> > Changes in v2:
> >> > - Move the refactor of data.c to a separate patch
> >> > - Add support for character literals in cell lists
> >> > - Merge normal and escaped literal support for bytestrings into
> >> > - single patch
> >>
> >> Getting very close with version, although there are still some minor
> >> warts I'd like you to address.
> >
> > Oh, and one other thing, I forgot to say yet: you need some testcases
> > for the new functionality.
> 
> Yup, I'll work on these today.  I'm still working on deciphering the
> testing code.  :)  Do you have a pointer to a good example of a dtc
> test to work from?  I tried looking around for a bytestring or literal
> test, but couldn't find anything obvious.

Something like escapes.dts / string_escapes.c is probably fairly
similar to what you're looking for.

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