[bug #48752] Simple arithmetic functionality

[Mirko Vogt]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?48752>

                 Summary: Simple arithmetic functionality
                 Project: GNU GRUB
            Submitted by: mirco
            Submitted on: Wed 10 Aug 2016 07:50:47 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: Major
                Priority: 5 - Normal
              Item Group: Feature Request
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
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             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                 Release: 
                 Release: Git master
         Reproducibility: Every Time
         Planned Release: None

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Details:

I'd like to ask for very basic arithmetic functionality for the scripting
engine of GRUB, mainly addition / subtraction, maybe even some more by e.g.
taking over code from `let` or the `$((..))` syntax from *sh.

Very concrete use case would be a typical ping-pong scenario:

Counting (failed) boot attempts, storing them in the GRUB environment block
and switching to a failsafe / second-system / you-name-it, once booting into a
system failed `n` times.

Yes, this can be done without arithmetic operation.

But apart from it "just not being nice" (however I think nice - as in:
readable - code is quite a point for the essential part of booting a system),
I can think of quite a few other scenarios where basic arithmetic would really
add to GRUB.

Thank you for having read my feature request till the end :)




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