[Toybox] [PATCH] devmem: add -f FILE, arbitrary amounts of data.

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On Fri, Jul 26, 2024 at 7:52 PM Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:
>
> On 7/26/24 07:13, enh via Toybox wrote:
> >> Don't know Rob cares about this, but ?: is not ISO C. It's a GNU
> >> extension.
>
> Specifically https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-14.1.0/gcc/Conditionals.html
>
> > with 80 existing uses of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elvis_operator
> > in toybox, i'm pretty sure rob knows this already :-)
>
> Yeah, and it's been discussed multiple times over the years, starting with
> http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2012-April/013359.html
> where we were already looking into the portability of it.
>
> I should try to dig something up to put in code.html but the decision way back
> when was "if the 2.6 kernel needed it to build, toybox is probably ok relying on
> it being there" because we exist in an ecosystem. (The fact I maintained a
> tinycc fork for 3 years trying to extend it to make tccboot work with current
> vanilla source may have influenced this. :)
>
> I _thought_ this was recorded somewhere in code.html or design.html but it's not
> the easiest thing to grep for. There's several links at
> https://landley.net/toybox/cleanup.html#advice but this isn't one of them...
>
> There's a couple others things like this, "int x=x;" to shut up the stupid gcc
> "is never used uninitialized" warnings comes to mind (although that's migrated
> to a QUIET macro that does conditional zero initialization)...
>
> Rob