On 7/21/07, Oleg Verych <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 16:08:54 +0200
> >
> > From: Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > The sed expression used at the moment in scripts/Makefile.headersinst
> > relies on the (handy) GNU extension where you can escape ERE's in an
> > otherwise BRE without using the GNU -r option. The following patch
> > replaces this "\+" usage with a functionally equivalent POSIX BRE compliant
> > "\{1,\}".
>
> Matching at least one occurrence, right?
that is the definition of both + and \{1,\}
> > # Eliminate the contents of (and inclusions of) compiler.h
>
> OK, that means annotations and non ANSI 'inline' thing. Lets see.
>
> > HDRSED := sed -e "s/ inline / __inline__ /g" \
> []
> > - -e "s/[[:space:]]__attribute_const__[[:space:]]\+/\ /g" \
>
> * [[:space:]] are more than tab and space isspace(3), is it more
> effective to use [[:blank:]] instead?
if you want to make some micro optimization in the build install step,
sure ... but functionally, the difference is irrelevant considering
sed operates only on individual lines
> > + -e
> > "s/[[:space:]]__user[[:space:]]\{1,\}
>
> substitute one or more ' __user '
>
> > / /g" \
>
> with ' ', everywhere (flag 'g'). So, is it really needed that '\{' thing?
no, there is no grouping marker anywhere, so the match always applies
to just the whitespace
> > + -e "s/(__user[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ (/g" \
> > + -e "s/[[:space:]]__force[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ /g" \
> > + -e "s/(__force[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ (/g" \
> > + -e "s/[[:space:]]__iomem[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ /g" \
> > + -e "s/(__iomem[[:space:]]\{1,\}/ (/g" \
> > + -e "s/[[:space:]]__attribute_const__[[:space:]]\{1,\}/\ /g" \
> > -e "s/[[:space:]]__attribute_const__$$//" \
>
> Is it allowed to use identifiers like '__attribute_const__foo' or
> __attribute_const__[anything]? If it's not, last line is useless also.
a question that i think is really only relevant if it actually occurs
in the source code
> > -e "/^\#include <linux\/compiler.h>/d"
> whitespace is allowed ^ here and is used for better readability
> sometimes.
so post a patch for inclusion ... not that it's been an actual problem
[yet] though
-mike
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