Re: mhbuild and long header fields

[Philipp]

[2023-08-28 11:53] Philipp <philipp+mmh@bureaucracy.de>
> [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.

I have a version with charstring_t attached. I'm unsure if it's better
to only fold the body or include the field name. The version attached
only fold the body.

Philipp

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