Re: dtc: import latest upstream dtc

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

On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 03:42:35PM +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> >Oh, that's strange.  I'm pretty sure I've used -x assembler when I've
> >experimented with using cpp on dts manually before, and it seems to
> >have worked.
> 
> Maybe you used "-x assembler-with-cpp"?  That should work better ;-)
> Or just use the "-traditional-cpp" option, i.e. "gcc -E
> -traditional-cpp".

Ah, yes, assembler-with-cpp, that's the one I used.

> >  Note that IIRC with gcc cpp, -x assembler also means
> >that # won't be handled as a cpp directive except in column 0 which is
> >also an advantage for us, although no longer essential with your
> >escaping support.  Not all cpps have an equivalent option, though.
> 
> This is how the traditional C pre-processor behaves.  I don't think
> this is exactly what matters for DTS, or does it ever happen that
> you have a # preceded only by whitespace?

Uh.. pretty much whenever you define a #address-cells or #size-cells
property.  At least until Stephen's patch to allow escaping that.

>  The # and ## stringification
> and token pasting ops will of course bite you with the ISO C pre-processor,
> indeed.
> 
> 
> Segher
> 

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