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On 13/08/2012 20:32, demerphq wrote:
> On 13 August 2012 20:31, Leon Timmermans <fawaka@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 8:16 PM, David Cantrell <david@cantrell.org.uk> wrote:
>>> I haven't looked at the source (and am somewhat
>>> terrified to do so TBH) but I can see that getting a bit tricky.
>>
>> pp_pack.c is where you need to be. It's rather full of "tricky".
>
> And that is the diplomatic way to put it. :-)
I shouldn't have looked, but I did. It is dark and full of terrors, and
I want my mummy.
Thankfully, all I'm asking for right now is that the syntax be defined,
so that I can go ahead and implement it in my module, and make sure I
use the same magic letter as pack() will do if pack/unpack ever sprout
this tentacle in the future. So if people agree that this is a good
thing to do, all that actually needs patching for now is the
documentation, something like ...
x A null byte (a.k.a ASCII NUL, "\000", chr(0))
X Back up a byte.
+
+ Y NOT YET IMPLEMENTED. This syntax is reserved for a word of
+ an arbitrary number of bits. The number of bits is
+ specified as a base ten number in {braces}, eg Y{40} for
+ a forty bit (or five byte) word.
+
@ Null-fill or truncate to absolute position, counted from the
start of the innermost ()-group.
. Null-fill or truncate to absolute position specified by
the value.
--
David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david
Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea
It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye kin knot sea.
Eye strike a quay and type a word / And weight for it to say
Weather eye am wrong oar write / It shows me strait a weigh.
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