Re: [PATCH 13/15] RFC: lib: Support a binary prefix 0y

Wolfgang Denk
2021-07-21T08:27:46Z

Dear Simon,

In message <20210720132940.1171011-14-sjg@chromium.org> you wrote:
> In some cases it is useful to be able to supply a binary value to a
> command. Use the '0y' prefix for this (binarY).

We also don't handle octal input yet, and also miss a number of
other interesting numberbases, like 42.

But ... do we really *need* all this stuff?

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Best regards,

Wolfgang Denk

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