<html>#2752: Parameter file parser generates illegal (?) C code
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<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Reporter:</td><td>Erik Schnetter</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Status:</td><td>new</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Milestone:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Version:</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Type:</td><td>bug</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'> Priority:</td><td>major</td></tr>
<tr><td style='text-align:right'>Component:</td><td>Cactus</td></tr>
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<p>I see this warnings when building the autogenerated Cactus bindings:</p>
<div class="codehilite"><pre><span></span><span>/Users/eschnett/Cactus/configs/sim-debug/bindings/Parameters/TwoPunctures_BBHSF_Parameters.c: In function 'CCTKi_BindingsCreateTwoPunctures_BBHSFParameters':</span>
<span>/Users/eschnett/Cactus/configs/sim-debug/bindings/Parameters/TwoPunctures_BBHSF_Parameters.c:193:116: warning: unknown escape sequence: '\p'</span>
<span> 193 | "Exponent delta for conformal decomposition of the scalar field \phi = \psi^delta \bar\phi",</span>
<span> | ^</span>
<span>/Users/eschnett/Cactus/configs/sim-debug/bindings/Parameters/TwoPunctures_BBHSF_Parameters.c:193:116: warning: unknown escape sequence: '\p'</span>
<span>/Users/eschnett/Cactus/configs/sim-debug/bindings/Parameters/TwoPunctures_BBHSF_Parameters.c:193:116: warning: unknown escape sequence: '\p'</span>
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<p>It seems that a parameter description in a ccl file contains latex code, and the parameter file parse does not properly escape backslashes when generating C strings for them.</p>
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Ticket URL: <a href='https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2752/parameter-file-parser-generates-illegal-c'>https://bitbucket.org/einsteintoolkit/tickets/issues/2752/parameter-file-parser-generates-illegal-c</a></p>
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