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From: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>
To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@elastic.org>
Cc: Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@saunalahti.fi>,
	cgen@sourceware.org, 	Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
	fche@sourceware.org, Christian Svensson <blue@cmd.nu>,
		Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>,
		"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make large enum constants unsigned
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 17:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADzBsGN3U6a3BS5L7o7DYh_4KTghEXnB2UE0XKdNZrAN=A0p=g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140522150956.GC4031@elastic.org>

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Frank Ch. Eigler <fche@elastic.org> wrote:
> Have you thought of having cgen emit it as
>
>      (string-append "(signed int)" (number->string (cadr e)))
>

Ignoring the 'string-upcase' that would turn that into "(SIGNED INT)",
how would that be better than?

      (string-append (number->string (cadr e)) "U")


I dismissed that, since it would create a lot larger diff in generated
files than in the isolated cases where it's actually a problem.

> ... or even find a number->string conversion function that takes into
> account the destionation language's encoding constraints.
>

That might certainly be an option, but way over my current Scheme capabilities.
If you give me some pointers I could try to improve them.

Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-22 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-22  5:30 Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22  6:22 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-22  6:52   ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22  7:10     ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22 13:33       ` Pierre Muller
     [not found]       ` <5561926758764771034@unknownmsgid>
2014-05-22 14:10         ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-22 16:14       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-22 15:11 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-05-22 17:34   ` Stefan Kristiansson [this message]
2014-05-22 21:06     ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-05-22 21:42       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2014-05-22 22:20         ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2014-05-29 20:09       ` Stefan Kristiansson
2014-05-29 20:32         ` Frank Ch. Eigler

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