> I vote against anything similar to the C preprocessor. The advantage of the current language that's been floated here is that its 'execution' elements offer a far more expressive macro generation capability than the cpp. cpp doesn't have for loops. There's no way to convert a number to hex in cpp. Complicated if statements aren't possible. And so on. m4 allows these things, but imposes restrictions that make it awkward to use in this context, so it is out (despite my comments yesterday, and the fact I use it to genreate the html for my resume). There's really no other widely available preprocessor that would be useful here.
Then again, I'm not sure that I completely buy into the mixing data definitions and execution elements being confusing. We do that right now in every C program you write with global variables... The problem here is that we're inventing a scripting language to generate data structures, much like web pages are generated in some scripting languages by haing the output be html. There's little confusion there (and no, I'm not suggesting we use one of them :-). Warner _______________________________________________ devicetree-discuss mailing list devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/devicetree-discuss
