[PATCH 4/4] DTC: Begin the path to sane literals and expressions.

Jon Loeliger jdl at jdl.com
Mon Oct 22 22:36:57 EST 2007


So, like, the other day Segher Boessenkool mumbled:
> > Property names have been limited to start with
> > characters from the set [a-zA-Z,._#?].  That is, the
> > digits and the expression symbols have been removed.
> 
> This cannot work; many property names start with a digit,
> for example.

Are any of those property names in use in any
of our DTS files or b-w-o.txt?  Not really, no.
In fact, with this lexical change, all of our
DTS files still produce byte-identical results.

I really think this is one of those areas where
we may need to stray from the other guideline.

Is there a compelling reason somewhere?  Really?

jdl



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