[LUCY-71] Remove Perl dependency of METAQUOTE

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Component/s: Charmonizer
• Assignee: Marvin Humphrey
• Reporter: Nathan Kurz
• Created: 21/Nov/09 18:58
• Updated: 25/Feb/10 17:04
• Resolved: 25/Feb/10 17:04

Description

Charmonizer currently uses a Perl script 'METAQUOTE' to preprocess its '.charm' files into '.c' files and '.harm' files into '.h' files. This works, but requires a dependency on Perl that seems inappropriate for a C language tool.

The suggested alternatives were to use manual quoting or standard macros.

Manual quoting seemed error prone and cumbersome, so this patch proposes the using the 'stringify' (#expr) function within standard C preprocessor macros.