[PATCH 0/3] Variable sized cell support

[Anton Staaf]

On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 7:26 PM, David Gibson
<david at gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 01:42:08PM -0700, Anton Staaf wrote:
>> This patch set adds, tests, and documents support for variable sized cells in
>> cell arrays.  The new syntax is:
>>
>>     property = /size/ [8|16|32|64] <0x00 .... 0x12>;
>>
>> So cell arrays of 8, 16, 32, or 64-bits can now be created.  No padding is
>> done on the resulting cell array.  So if three 8-bit cells are specified the
>> resulting property will contain three bytes.
>>
>> This patch set assumes that the character literals in cell lists patch has
>> already been applied to your tree as it uses them in it's test case and the
>> diff will not apply cleanly to TOT without the character literals patch because
>> both patch sets modify the same locations in the parser.  You do not need to
>> apply the character literal support in bytestrings patch however.
>
> Nice.

Thanks.

> Still wants a little polish, I think.  And some time to sit around
> in case we have a better idea on the syntax, but a very good start.

Yup, makes sense.  I'll submit a v2 today that addresses your other comments.

-Anton

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