GitHub user mreve opened a pull request:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/461
Support negative hex literals in IDL
As it is now, the parser doesn't allow hex constant values to be negative
(it throws a 'bad syntax' error).
The change updates the regex and the code that parses the hex value from
the string read from the IDL file to support negative values.
Jira issue: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-233
You can merge this pull request into a Git repository by running:
$ git pull https://github.com/mreve/thrift THRIFT-233
Alternatively you can review and apply these changes as the patch at:
https://github.com/apache/thrift/pull/461.patch
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This closes #461
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commit 5c14cea3d612d026279b354556472c22647261b9
Author: mreve <[email protected]>
Date: 2015-04-19T11:16:45Z
Update hexconstant regex in thriftl.ll
As it is now, the parser doesn't allow hex constant values to be negative
(it throws a 'bad syntax' error).
The change updates the regex and the part that parses the hex value from
the string read from the IDL file to support negative values.
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