[cfe-dev] Upstream StringLiteralParser?

[Sean Silva]

On Thu, Jun 4, 2015 at 11:52 AM, Josh Klontz <josh.klontz at gmail.com> wrote:

> This is a humble request to consider upstreaming StringLiteralParser into
> core LLVM. To my knowledge, many languages seem to follow (at least a
> subset of) C/C++ string escaping conventions, and this file would be useful
> for those language designers (myself included) who might otherwise roll
> their own implementation.
>

There are actually a large variety of subtle differences. Most languages
are neither a subset nor a superset of C/C++ string escaping conventions.
Writing a string literal parser is easy anyway (just a loop with a switch).

-- Sean Silva


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> v/r,
> Josh
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