Re: [PATCH v3] ShellPkg/ShellCommandLib: Update DumpHex to print {|}~

[Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>]

Ray, do you agree? If so, can you please push this?

Thank you,
Jeff

On Wed, 26 Apr 2017, Carsey, Jaben wrote:

> That makes sense. When I wrote that I was unsure where to draw the line between which characters to print and which to replace.
>
> Reviewed-by: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Jeff Westfahl [mailto:jeff.westfahl@ni.com]
>> Sent: Wednesday, April 26, 2017 12:59 PM
>> To: edk2-devel@lists.01.org
>> Cc: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>; Ni, Ruiyu <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>;
>> Carsey, Jaben <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
>> Subject: [edk2][PATCH v3] ShellPkg/ShellCommandLib: Update DumpHex to
>> print {|}~
>> Importance: High
>>
>> ASCII characters {|}~ should be printed by DumpHex. The problem is that
>> if you have a string like
>>
>>     {xizzy}~{foo|bar}~{quux}
>>
>> in the dumped data, it will not appear as such in the *-delimited ASCII
>> column to the right, but as
>>
>>     .xizzy...foo.bar...quux.
>>
>> which is less than ideal.
>>
>> Most of the commit message was inspired by/shamelessly stolen from
>> Laszlo's example:
>>
>>     https://lists.01.org/pipermail/edk2-devel/2017-April/010266.html
>>
>> Cc: Ruiyu Ni <ruiyu.ni@intel.com>
>> Cc: Jaben Carsey <jaben.carsey@intel.com>
>> Contributed-under: TianoCore Contribution Agreement 1.0
>> Signed-off-by: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@ni.com>
>> Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
>> ---
>>  ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellCommandLib/UefiShellCommandLib.c | 2 +-
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellCommandLib/UefiShellCommandLib.c
>> b/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellCommandLib/UefiShellCommandLib.c
>> index a2ebc8f..bd14878 100644
>> --- a/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellCommandLib/UefiShellCommandLib.c
>> +++ b/ShellPkg/Library/UefiShellCommandLib/UefiShellCommandLib.c
>> @@ -1745,7 +1745,7 @@ DumpHex (
>>        Val[Index * 3 + 0]  = Hex[TempByte >> 4];
>>        Val[Index * 3 + 1]  = Hex[TempByte & 0xF];
>>        Val[Index * 3 + 2]  = (CHAR8) ((Index == 7) ? '-' : ' ');
>> -      Str[Index]          = (CHAR8) ((TempByte < ' ' || TempByte > 'z') ? '.' :
>> TempByte);
>> +      Str[Index]          = (CHAR8) ((TempByte < ' ' || TempByte > '~') ? '.' :
>> TempByte);
>>      }
>>
>>      Val[Index * 3]  = 0;
>> --
>> 2.7.4
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