Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 04:16:02 +0000 (GMT) From: "E.B. Dreger" <eddy+public+spam@noc.everquick.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: any file --> symbol in .o file Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0205200347220.8811-100000@www.everquick.net>
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Greetings all, While writing CGIs in C, I'm getting a bit sick of escaping quotes and line continuations in strings. Not a huge deal, perhaps, but there must be a better way. Strings end up in .data or .rodata in object files to be linked... I'm about to whip up a utility that will take any arbitrary file and store the contents in a .o file (complete with symbol names so one can actually link, of course). Instead of compiling: const char foo[] = "\"Escape\" chars make strings in 'C' code...\n\ ...messy. Line breaks can be troublesome and add\ unexpected whitespace to one's code." ; simply put the desired unescaped text in a file: "Escape" chars make strings in 'C' code... ...messy. Line breaks can be troublesome and add unexpected whitespace to one's code. then run the utility. Large amounts of embedded HTML/XML/XHTML are just beginning to bug me. Note that it wouldn't be limited to text, either. If one wished to take a raw-binary lookup table for a sine wave, that would make no difference. If there's interest, I'll post it for download. I also have a few other ideas, and certainly am open to suggestions. -- Eddy Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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