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| - | May 30: Stefan pointed out a few bugs: mostly with detecting incorrect input. Fixed them. There's this bug that I've introduced: after a few (sometimes one, sometimes more) incorrect inputs, gPXE just locks up. I can't seem to isolate it. Well, there's no way I can pitch it as a feature, so I guess that's more work for me. | + | May 30: Stefan pointed out a few bugs: mostly with detecting incorrect input. Fixed them. There's this bug that I've introduced: after a few (sometimes one, sometimes more) incorrect inputs, gPXE just locks up. I can't seem to isolate it. Well, there's no way I can pitch it as a feature, so I'll have to fix it. |
| May 31: Hunted down the bug and fixed it. Turns out it was a problem with the error code that I return. I thought I'd return a -1 on a parse error. Instead I fixed it to return a 0, as the length of an empty string, and it works properly now. | May 31: Hunted down the bug and fixed it. Turns out it was a problem with the error code that I return. I thought I'd return a -1 on a parse error. Instead I fixed it to return a 0, as the length of an empty string, and it works properly now. | ||
| June 1: Stefan suggested I take a check and look at the big picture. As a result, I've filled in my Project Plan, with the details of the project. One of the first things to be done is to look at the syntax. Once that is decided, I will be able to move forward. | June 1: Stefan suggested I take a check and look at the big picture. As a result, I've filled in my Project Plan, with the details of the project. One of the first things to be done is to look at the syntax. Once that is decided, I will be able to move forward. | ||
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| + | June 2-3: Reading through the bash source, to see how they do things. They seem to separate arithmetic and non-numeric expressions. I don't think that's really possible here. | ||
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| + | June 5: Tried to see if I could unify evaluation and variable expansion, like ${a+2}. This would mean adding support for strings. There are two ways I thought of: | ||
| + | * Each parsing function returns a string instead of a value. (I.e.: "11+23" will give "34" instead of 34). | ||
| + | * Check if only a variable is present; if so, return that value, if not convert to an integer and continue as usual. | ||
| + | The first seems smaller. There are problems with this approach, anyway, since some operators such as '/' are valid in variable names. | ||
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