Re: add-symbol-file parsing

[Mark Santcroos <marks@ripe.net>]

Hi Daniel,

On Tue, Dec 03, 2002 at 12:29:39AM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The problem is, add-symbol-file takes more than a $text_addr.  It also
> takes a series of -s SECNAME $sec_addr.  We could:
> 
>  - split the command line at -s options and parse anything before the
>    next -s option as an expression, assuming people will not foolishly
>    use -s in their expression;
>  - allow only convenience variables
> 
> Option 2 may be the way to go... What do others think about allowing
> integer-or-convenience-variable there?

Option 2 would at least enable us to do everything. In the worst case you
would have to add another line to your macro that does the
expression-to-convinience-variable-translation.

Please let me know if you don't have time and would prefer me to tackle
this.

Thanks

Mark

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