SCCS what tags in .beam files?

[Shawn Pearce]

Sebastian Strollo <seb@REDACTED> wrote:
> Shawn Pearce <spearce@REDACTED> writes:
> 
> > So has anyone had good luck with putting SCCS what tags into the vsn
> > attribute of a module, and not getting garbage back?  I'm doing it and
> > getting some extra crap thrown in by the beam file format.
> > 
> > This is actually not typical SCCS, but is BitKeeper and its %Z%%K% tags:
> > 
> > 	-vsn("%Z%K%").
> > 
> >  expands to:
> > 
> > 	-vsn("@(#)spearce@REDACTED|src/w32hook.erl|20040316035503|25088").
> 
> Seems BitKeeper doesn't have an "end" tag? (I don't know anything
> about it, but e.g. RCS has it's tag surrounded by $Id ... $). Maybe BK
> expects null terminated strings, how about:
> 
>  	-vsn("%Z%K%\000").

No, they don't use an end tag, I think they just use the null byte, as
typically its:

	static const char*	VERSION="%Z%%K%";

which is enough.  Erlang just had to go and break convention and stop
using null bytes to terminate its "strings".  :-)  D*** Erlang.  :-)

I'll try the \000, I'm sure that's what I was looking for.

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