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Re: Some syntactic sugar for machine descriptions
- To: zackw at stanford dot edu
- Subject: Re: Some syntactic sugar for machine descriptions
- From: kenner at vlsi1 dot ultra dot nyu dot edu (Richard Kenner)
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 01 19:04:17 EDT
- Cc: gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
1: If the RTL reader does not recognize a backslash escape in a string
constant, it passes it on to the output unmolested.
I don't like this idea since it means that if the RTL reader is ever taught
about a new backslash escape, you have to check if anybody used it unescaped.
I'd much prefer the orthogonality to compatibility issues into the future.
2: Wherever a double-quoted string is acceptable, a brace block is
also acceptable.
3: If a string begins with an asterisk, that asterisk may appear
outside the string delimiters.
Is this going to work with emacs-lisp mode?