typedef void FAST_FUNC (*converter)(const char *arg, void *result);
+#define WANT_HEX_ESCAPES 0
+
+/* Usual "this only works for ascii compatible encodings" disclaimer. */
+#undef _tolower
+#define _tolower(X) ((X)|((char) 0x20))
+
+char FAST_FUNC bb_process_escape_sequence(const char **ptr)
+{
+ const char *q;
+ unsigned num_digits;
+ unsigned n;
+ unsigned base;
+
+ num_digits = n = 0;
+ base = 8;
+ q = *ptr;
+
+ if (WANT_HEX_ESCAPES && *q == 'x') {
+ ++q;
+ base = 16;
+ ++num_digits;
+ }
+
+ /* bash requires leading 0 in octal escapes:
+ * \02 works, \2 does not (prints \ and 2).
+ * We treat \2 as a valid octal escape sequence. */
+ do {
+ unsigned r;
+ unsigned d = (unsigned char)(*q) - '0';
+#if WANT_HEX_ESCAPES
+ if (d >= 10) {
+ d = (unsigned char)_tolower(*q) - 'a';
+ //d += 10;
+ /* The above would map 'A'-'F' and 'a'-'f' to 10-15,
+ * however, some chars like '@' would map to 9 < base.
+ * Do not allow that, map invalid chars to N > base:
+ */
+ if ((int)d >= 0)
+ d += 10;
+ }
+#endif
+ if (d >= base) {
+ if (WANT_HEX_ESCAPES && base == 16) {
+ --num_digits;
+ if (num_digits == 0) {
+ /* \x<bad_char>: return '\',
+ * leave ptr pointing to x */
+ return '\\';
+ }
+ }
+ break;
+ }
+
+ r = n * base + d;
+ if (r > UCHAR_MAX) {
+ break;
+ }
+
+ n = r;
+ ++q;
+ } while (++num_digits < 3);
+
+ if (num_digits == 0) {
+ /* Not octal or hex escape sequence.
+ * Is it one-letter one? */
+
+ /* bash builtin "echo -e '\ec'" interprets \e as ESC,
+ * but coreutils "/bin/echo -e '\ec'" does not.
+ * Manpages tend to support coreutils way.
+ * Update: coreutils added support for \e on 28 Oct 2009. */
+ static const char charmap[] ALIGN1 = {
+ 'a', 'b', 'e', 'f', 'n', 'r', 't', 'v', '\\', '\0',
+ '\a', '\b', 27, '\f', '\n', '\r', '\t', '\v', '\\', '\\',
+ };
+ const char *p = charmap;
+ do {
+ if (*p == *q) {
+ q++;
+ break;
+ }
+ } while (*++p != '\0');
+ /* p points to found escape char or NUL,
+ * advance it and find what it translates to.
+ * Note that \NUL and unrecognized sequence \z return '\'
+ * and leave ptr pointing to NUL or z. */
+ n = p[sizeof(charmap) / 2];
+ }
+
+ *ptr = q;
+
+ return (char) n;
+}
+
+char* FAST_FUNC skip_whitespace(const char *s)
+{
+ /* In POSIX/C locale (the only locale we care about: do we REALLY want
+ * to allow Unicode whitespace in, say, .conf files? nuts!)
+ * isspace is only these chars: "\t\n\v\f\r" and space.
+ * "\t\n\v\f\r" happen to have ASCII codes 9,10,11,12,13.
+ * Use that.
+ */
+ while (*s == ' ' || (unsigned char)(*s - 9) <= (13 - 9))
+ s++;
+
+ return (char *) s;
+}
+
+/* Like strcpy but can copy overlapping strings. */
+void FAST_FUNC overlapping_strcpy(char *dst, const char *src)
+{
+ /* Cheap optimization for dst == src case -
+ * better to have it here than in many callers.
+ */
+ if (dst != src) {
+ while ((*dst = *src) != '\0') {
+ dst++;
+ src++;
+ }
+ }
+}
+
static int multiconvert(const char *arg, void *result, converter convert)
{
if (*arg == '"' || *arg == '\'') {