Extend the operations that perform formatted conversion, such as
string.format/2, to be able to handle values of type uint directly. We have
always supported formatting values of type int as unsigned values, but
currently the only way to format uint values is by explicitly casting them to
an int. This addresses Mantis issue #502.
library/string.m:
Add a new alternative to the poly_type/0 type that wraps uint
values.
Update the documentation for string.format. uint values may
now be formatted using the u, x, X, o or p conversion specifiers.
library/string.format.m:
Add the necessary machinery for handling formatting of uint values.
library/string.parse_runtime.m:
library/string.parse_util.m:
Handle uint poly_types.
library/io.m:a
Handle uint values in the write_many predicates.
library/pprint.m:
Handle uint values in the poly/1 function.
compiler/format_call.m:
compiler/parse_string_format.m:
Conform to the above changes.
compiler/options.m:
Add a way to detect if a compiler supports this change.
NEWS:
Announce the above changes.
tests/hard_coded/stream_format.{m,exp}:
Extend this test to cover uints.
tests/invalid/string_format_bad.m:
tests/invalid/string_format_unknown.m:
Conform to the above changes.
tests/string_format/Mmakefile:
tests/string_format/string_format_uint_o.{m,exp,exp2}:
tests/string_format/string_format_uint_u.{m,exp,exp2}:
tests/string_format/string_format_uint_x.{m,exp,exp2}:
Add tests of string.format with uints.
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Add some new utility predicates for use with streams.
library/stream.m:
Add the predicate stream.format/5, an analogue of io.format,
that writes formatted output using an arbitrary string writer.
Add a predicate stream.ignore_whitespace/4 that can be used
to skip past whitespace in a putback char reader stream.
library/Mercury.options:
Don't warn about unknown format calls in the stream module.
Unrelated change: remove a workaround that was put in place
before the addition of the `--no-warn-obsolete' option.
compiler/format_call.m:
Also analyse calls to stream.format/5.
tests/hard_coded/Mmakefile:
tests/hard_coded/stream_format.{m,exp}:
tests/hard_coded/stream_ignore_ws.{m,exp,data}:
Test stream.format/5 and stream.ignore_whitespace/3.
tests/invalid/string_format_bad.{m,exp}:
tests/invalid/string_format_unknown.{m,exp}:
Check that we emit messages for bad/unknown calls to stream.format/5.
