[PATCH] generate xlat structs

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Fri, Apr 18, 2014 at 02:46:25AM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 07:08:52PM +0400, Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 03:18:44AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Monday, February 17, 2014 02:51:17 Dmitry V. Levin wrote:
> > [...]
> > > > > +	echo "const struct xlat ${name}[] = {"
> > > > 
> > > > static?
> > > 
> > > i started with that, but not all xlat's are static like addrfams :(.  but i 
> > > didn't want to try extending the file format too much to support this as then 
> > > we'd have this giant ad-hoc mess.  any suggestions on any semi-existing 
> > > standards/structured file formats to use ?
> > 
> > No, your simple lists are better than any structured file formats.
> 
> BTW, there are about 167 static xlat structs and only 5 global xlat structs.
> All 5 are declared in defs.h, we surely can handle them somehow.
> 
> I'd like to have your nice idea implemented and all xlat structs
> converted before the release.
> Is there any chance this will happen? ;)

The result of my experiments on this subject is pushed to ldv/xlat branch.
It seems to work after all.


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