[DTC PATCH] Add support for decimal, octal and binary based cell values.

Yoder Stuart-B08248 stuart.yoder at freescale.com
Fri Feb 16 05:00:21 EST 2007


 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Olof Johansson [mailto:olof at lixom.net] 
> Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 12:00 PM
> To: Yoder Stuart-B08248
> Cc: Jon Loeliger; linuxppc-dev at ozlabs.org
> Subject: Re: [DTC PATCH] Add support for decimal, octal and 
> binary based cell values.
> 
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 10:45:54AM -0700, Yoder Stuart-B08248 wrote:
> > 
> > I like to see no space between the d#, h#, etc and the
> > numeric value.
> > 
> > Does anyone see a good reason to keep whitespace there?
> 
> Does it really matter what color the bike shed is?

In this case I think it does matter (a little :)).  If
you represent a number as <#h5678> it's clear that the
#h and 5678 are related.

If you represent it as <#h 5678> the relation between
the two is not as clear-- of course once you read the 
spec you figure it out.

It's not a huge deal, but while we're adding a feature
to dtc why not make the syntax as clear as we can?

Stuart



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