Re: [PROPOSAL] enhanced table dumping

[Ronald G. Minnich]

On Tue, 18 Jan 2005, Greg Watson wrote:
> I'd like to hear more about what Stefan had in mind for the 'small set of C
> functions'. Maybe the simplest way would be to pass the device tree itself to
> the payload? I guess it wouldn't solve the binary/ascii problem, but it would
> sure as hell make the code easy.

no, that will not work, due to the compiler portability issues. The Plan 9
C compiler won't work against GCC structs in any cases where
__attribute(xyz) has been used. We have to be careful here -- not all
payloads are compiled with gcc.

That's why I favor the s-expression approach. Binary trees are not going 
to work.

ron