From 55b30ac226e0afeb0b982fd3361660fd3b4f9057 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: sewardj <unknown>
Date: Thu, 6 Apr 2000 17:14:08 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] [project @ 2000-04-06 17:14:08 by sewardj] pprInstr (ASCII
 True str): avoid escapery probs by translating into hex

---
 ghc/compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.lhs |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ghc/compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.lhs b/ghc/compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.lhs
index ea296ef..51a6838 100644
--- a/ghc/compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.lhs
+++ b/ghc/compiler/nativeGen/PprMach.lhs
@@ -407,10 +407,28 @@ pprInstr (ASCII False{-no backslash conversion-} str)
   = hcat [ ptext SLIT("\t.asciz "), char '\"', text str, char '"' ]
 
 pprInstr (ASCII True str)
-  = (<>) (text "\t.ascii \"") (asciify str 60)
+  = --(<>) (text "\t.ascii \"") (asciify 60 str)
+    asciify str
   where
+    asciify :: String -> SDoc
+    asciify "" = text "\t.ascii \"\\0\""
+    asciify str
+       = let fst  = take 16 str
+             rest = drop 16 str
+             this = text ("\t.ascii \"" 
+                          ++ concat (map asciify_char fst)
+                          ++ "\"")
+         in  this $$ asciify rest
+    asciify_char :: Char -> String
+    asciify_char c = '\\' : 'x' : hshow (ord c)
+
+    hshow :: Int -> String
+    hshow n | n >= 0 && n <= 255
+            = [ tab !! (n `div` 16), tab !! (n `mod` 16)]
+    tab = "0123456789abcdef"
+
+{-
     asciify :: String -> Int -> SDoc
-
     asciify [] _ = text "\\0\""
     asciify s     n | n <= 0 = (<>) (text "\"\n\t.ascii \"") (asciify s 60)
     asciify ('\\':cs)      n = (<>) (text "\\\\") (asciify cs (n-1))
@@ -420,6 +438,8 @@ pprInstr (ASCII True str)
     asciify (c:(cs@(d:_))) n
       | isDigit d = (<>) (text (charToC c)) (asciify cs 0)
       | otherwise = (<>) (text (charToC c)) (asciify cs (n-1))
+    asciify [] _ = text "\\0\
+-}
 
 #if 0
 pprInstr (DATA s xs)
-- 
1.7.10.4