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 To close this pull request, make a commit to your master/trunk branch with (at least) the following in the commit message: This closes #461 ---- commit 5c14cea3d612d026279b354556472c22647261b9 Author: mreve <aady...@gmail.com> 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. ---- --- If your project is set up for it, you can reply to this email and have your reply appear on GitHub as well. If your project does not have this feature enabled and wishes so, or if the feature is enabled but not working, please contact infrastructure at infrastruct...@apache.org or file a JIRA ticket with INFRA. ---