Dear Simon,
In message CAPnjgZ15KavTBZoML7dv_EaRJMyJvbA=kmY3Bgz4AeygwEppuQ@mail.gmail.com you wrote:
Can we just ban + ?
Why? Just because your awk script is a lousy parser?
In the above, foo+ gives an unknown escape sequence from the C preprocessor, then the whole line is ignored by the script
Really?
-> cat foo.c #define A ampersand #define B berta
int foo = A + B ; -> gcc -E foo.c # 0 "foo.c" # 0 "<built-in>" # 0 "<command-line>" # 1 "/usr/include/stdc-predef.h" 1 3 4 # 0 "<command-line>" 2 # 1 "foo.c"
int foo = ampersand + berta ;
I do not see any such error message?
foo+ = bar produes a variable called "foo+ " in the environment with the value " bar" so you probably don't want that.
This is only because your "parser" is very primitive and sensitive even to minimal white space changes.
My original motivation was the complexity of getting the env you want using #define
My current motivation is to complete the CONFIG migration, now in its 8th year.
I fully understand your motivation and appreciate your efforts.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk