Re: architectures with their own "config PCMCIA"

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sun Aug 15 2004 - 18:23:11 EST


On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 01:01:35AM +0200, Roman Zippel wrote:

> Hi,

Hi Roman,

> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>
> > > What about normal numbers? I don't think requiring quotes everywhere for
> > > this is a good idea.
> >
> > And numbers (both decimal and hex) can easily be distinguished from y, n, and m
> > anyway.
>
> I did consider this at some point, but I didn't want to add further
> special cases. Every symbol has a tristate and a string value and so you
> can compare pretty much everything with everything else. Splitting the
> string value further into other types isn't worth the trouble. The problem
> at hand is easy enough to solve by adding a type declaration.

if things stay as they are, we _really_ need warnings for !=n and
rewrite the correct ones to (FOO=y || FOO=m).

> bye, Roman

cu
Adrian

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