Re: [PATCH] decodetree: Allow use of hex/bin format for argument field values

["Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <f4bug@amsat.org>]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2020 at 1:26 PM Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org> wrote:
> ISA datasheets often use binary or hexadecimal constant values.
> By doing base conversion, we might introduce bugs. Safer is to
> copy/paste the datasheet value.
> Add support for bin/hex constants in argument field token.
>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
> ---
> Is there a more pythonic way to write this if/elif/else
> loop without re.fullmatch?

BTW I discarded the simple "int(value, 0)" to have strict checks,
but if this is enough it is certainly simpler.

> ---
>  scripts/decodetree.py | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/decodetree.py b/scripts/decodetree.py
> index 47aa9caf6d1..d2ecc61813f 100644
> --- a/scripts/decodetree.py
> +++ b/scripts/decodetree.py
> @@ -849,9 +849,15 @@ def parse_generic(lineno, parent_pat, name, toks):
>              continue
>
>          # 'Foo=number' sets an argument field to a constant value
> -        if re.fullmatch(re_C_ident + '=[+-]?[0-9]+', t):
> +        if re.fullmatch(re_C_ident + '=[+-]?(0[bx])?[0-9]+', t):
>              (fname, value) = t.split('=')
> -            value = int(value)
> +            if re.fullmatch('[+-]?0b[0-9]+', value):
> +                base = 2
> +            elif re.fullmatch('[+-]?0x[0-9]+', value):
> +                base = 16
> +            else:
> +                base = 10
> +            value = int(value, base)
>              flds = add_field(lineno, flds, fname, ConstField(value))
>              continue
>
> --
> 2.26.2
>