Small updates to `rationale.md` for display on Github.

[vvhitespace] / vv_compiler.c

diff --git a/vv_compiler.c b/vv_compiler.c
index e53f70d..988eee9 100644 (file)
--- a/vv_compiler.c
+++ b/vv_compiler.c
@@ -26,8 +26,8 @@ print_usage(char ** argv)
 }
 
 /* Builds an ASCII string on the stack using VVS PUSH_IMMEDIATE commands.    */
 }
 
 /* Builds an ASCII string on the stack using VVS PUSH_IMMEDIATE commands.    */

-/* The syntax: A"test" results in six PUSH_IMMEDIATE commands for the four   */
-/*   letters, newline, and null-terminator.                                  */
+/* The syntax: A"test" results in five PUSH_IMMEDIATE commands for the four  */
+/*   letters, and null-terminator.                                           */

 /* Expects 'input' to present a double-quoted ('"') ASCII string.            */
 /* The 'A' has already been chomped.                                         */
 void
 /* Expects 'input' to present a double-quoted ('"') ASCII string.            */
 /* The 'A' has already been chomped.                                         */
 void


@@ -65,6 +65,9 @@ parse_ascii_string(FILE * input, FILE * output)
         fseek(input, -2, SEEK_CUR);
         fread(&temp_byte, 1, 1, input);
     }
         fseek(input, -2, SEEK_CUR);
         fread(&temp_byte, 1, 1, input);
     }

+
+    /* Advance the stream pointer to the end of the string before returning. */
+    for (fread(&temp_byte,1,1,input); temp_byte != '"'; fread(&temp_byte,1,1,input)) continue;

 }
 
 int
 }
 
 int