Re: [PATCH 0/3] Variable sized cell support

[David Gibson <david-xT8FGy+AXnRB3Ne2BGzF6laj5H9X9Tb+@public.gmane.org>]

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.

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.

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