From: David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>
To: Scott Wood <scottwood-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
Cc: devicetree-discuss-mnsaURCQ41sdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the new DTS language.
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2008 02:11:50 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081002161150.GA14351@yookeroo.seuss> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081002152242.GB22258-VKaLA/mbEU932VTgPCOETVjVikpgYyvb5NbjCUgZEJk@public.gmane.org>
On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 10:22:42AM -0500, Scott Wood wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 11:18:00AM +1000, David Gibson wrote:
> > > I vote against anything similar to the C preprocessor.
> >
> > Why?
>
> It's not nearly as powerful as the semantic approach, and it is
How so? If anything I think it's more powerful, because the macro
boundaries can be anywhere, not only at the edges of particular
semantic constructs.
> syntactically clumsy (I do *not* want to have to put a backslash at the
> end of every line within a macro, for example).
Avoiding the backslashes everywhere is a reasonable argument though.
That's avoidable without dropping the basic idea of macro expansion,
though.
--
David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code
david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_
| _way_ _around_!
http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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2008-09-26 20:25 [PATCH 0/9 V3] Implement a new DTS Source Language Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-1-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 1/9 V3] Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-2-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 2/9 V3] Add conditionalized debug() print macro Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-3-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 3/9 V3] Enhance source position implementation Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-4-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 4/9 V3] Add header files for new Internal Representation form Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-5-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 5/9 V3] Add most of the new IR implementation files Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-6-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 6/9 V3] Add the main IR evaluation implementation Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-7-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 7/9 V3] Introduce new DTS language Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-8-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the " Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-9-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-26 20:25 ` [PATCH 9/9 V3] Test constant expressions in cell contexts Jon Loeliger
[not found] ` <1222460748-20127-10-git-send-email-jdl-CYoMK+44s/E@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-30 6:04 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <20080930060418.GD18695-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-30 15:46 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-09-30 14:55 ` [PATCH 8/9 V3] Add documentation for the new DTS language Grant Likely
[not found] ` <20080930145537.GJ18313-s3s/WqlpOiPyB63q8FvJNQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-01 3:46 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <20081001034656.GF30810-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-01 4:01 ` Warner Losh
[not found] ` <20080930.220151.41675821.imp-uzTCJ5RojNnQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-01 4:22 ` David Gibson
2008-10-01 15:26 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <48E396A3.809-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-01 15:43 ` Warner Losh
[not found] ` <20081001.094306.71131107.imp-uzTCJ5RojNnQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-02 1:20 ` David Gibson
2008-10-02 1:18 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <20081002011800.GI25598-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-02 15:22 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <20081002152242.GB22258-VKaLA/mbEU932VTgPCOETVjVikpgYyvb5NbjCUgZEJk@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-02 16:11 ` David Gibson [this message]
[not found] ` <20081002161150.GA14351-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-02 17:22 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <48E5036D.9040509-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-03 2:24 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <20081003022424.GG3002-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-03 15:27 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <20081003152700.GA9115-VKaLA/mbEU932VTgPCOETVjVikpgYyvb5NbjCUgZEJk@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-04 4:52 ` David Gibson
2008-10-02 19:50 ` M. Warner Losh
[not found] ` <20081002.135004.1723231860.imp-uzTCJ5RojNnQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-02 20:46 ` Jon Loeliger
2008-10-03 0:23 ` David Gibson
2008-10-03 0:23 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <20081003002337.GB3002-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-03 1:17 ` M. Warner Losh
[not found] ` <20081002.191705.-108805802.imp-uzTCJ5RojNnQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-03 4:38 ` David Gibson
2010-02-20 16:13 ` Grant Likely
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2010-02-21 6:30 ` John Williams
2010-02-22 1:30 ` David Gibson
2010-02-22 6:26 ` Grant Likely
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2010-02-22 16:13 ` Yoder Stuart-B08248
[not found] ` <9696D7A991D0824DBA8DFAC74A9C5FA305B2021A-ofAVchDyotYzzZk0BCvKg5jmvxFtTJ+o0e7PPNI6Mm0@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-22 21:59 ` Grant Likely
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2010-02-22 22:52 ` Scott Wood
2010-02-23 2:04 ` David Gibson
2010-03-01 19:15 ` Grant Likely
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2010-03-01 19:38 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-01 20:30 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <4B8C2C4C.8070901@freescale <4B8C44C8.6000105@freescale.com>
[not found] ` <4B8C44C8.6000105-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-01 22:56 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
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2010-03-02 1:22 ` David Gibson
2010-03-02 0:10 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-02 1:19 ` David Gibson
2010-03-02 2:10 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <fa686aa41003011810w2e7b6278t6aaaf192f8d7c8c1-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-02 2:16 ` Grant Likely
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2010-03-02 4:20 ` David Gibson
[not found] ` <fa686aa41002221359m4d857e4cn3a1c56c32a24d21d@mail <4288fc0b-79a4-42fd-9e77-573dbad79210@SG2EHSMHS004.ehs.local>
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2010-03-01 21:06 ` Scott Wood
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2010-03-01 22:03 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <4d16ecf4-27b2-4c73-a3be-5b2a8ff95820-+Ck8Kgl/v0+J1bAq5m18RLjjLBE8jN/0@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-01 22:25 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <fa686aa41003011425i734ee434m95b62d57a271bd1f-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-02 1:11 ` David Gibson
2010-03-01 22:18 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <fa686aa41003011418x339884c9md61c49948b31a8d1-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-01 22:26 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
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2010-03-02 0:03 ` Grant Likely
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2010-03-02 0:13 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
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2010-03-02 1:25 ` David Gibson
2010-03-02 2:08 ` Grant Likely
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2010-03-02 17:06 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-01 22:50 ` Scott Wood
2010-03-01 21:49 ` Grant Likely
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2010-03-01 22:15 ` Mitch Bradley
[not found] ` <4B8C3C78.5010206-D5eQfiDGL7eakBO8gow8eQ@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-01 23:33 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <fa686aa41003011533x3d2d00abyb8d7cf33344a3bde-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-02 3:59 ` David Gibson
2010-03-01 22:17 ` Stephen Neuendorffer
[not found] ` <72f497af-412c-4a05-90c2-5df0be00d93f-+Ck8Kgl/v09CYczPSvLbDrjjLBE8jN/0@public.gmane.org>
2010-03-01 23:42 ` Grant Likely
2010-03-02 23:12 ` David Gibson
2010-03-03 16:18 ` Grant Likely
2010-02-23 1:47 ` David Gibson
2010-02-23 2:17 ` Grant Likely
[not found] ` <fa686aa41002221817s5f15dc4cy5ab873a61de2cb2f-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2010-02-23 4:10 ` David Gibson
2008-10-02 8:25 ` [PATCH 7/9 V3] Introduce " David Gibson
2008-09-30 6:03 ` [PATCH 4/9 V3] Add header files for new Internal Representation form David Gibson
2008-09-30 6:00 ` [PATCH 3/9 V3] Enhance source position implementation David Gibson
2008-09-30 5:57 ` [PATCH 1/9 V3] Remove support for the legacy DTS source file format David Gibson
[not found] ` <20080930055716.GA18695-787xzQ0H9iRg7VrjXcPTGA@public.gmane.org>
2008-09-30 16:30 ` Scott Wood
[not found] ` <48E2541B.1000801-KZfg59tc24xl57MIdRCFDg@public.gmane.org>
2008-10-01 1:26 ` David Gibson
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