Re: mhbuild and long header fields

[Philipp]

[2023-08-27 22:00] David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
> Philipp wrote:
>
> > [2023-08-27 09:29] David Levine <levinedl@acm.org>
> > >
> > > My only comment on the code itself is that I prefer functions that
> > > just do one thing.  So I would implement a fold function that just
> > > modifies a string, and leave the fprintf/fwrite to output_headers().
> >
> > I have thought about this, but this would require fold() to allocate memory.
> > Because the plan was to use fold() in output_headers() I though this could
> > be avoided.
>
> I don't think that allocating memory is a drawback.

I first wrote a long text about the missing string abstraction, then
I found charstring_t. I'll adjust this a few days.

One question about charstring_t: Why does charstring_push_back_chars()
not use memcpy?

Philipp