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From: | Lorenzo Bettini |
Subject: | Re: [help-gengetopt] gengetopt: initialization of args_info_help[] |
Date: | Tue, 16 Dec 2008 12:49:02 +0100 |
User-agent: | Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) |
Andre Noll wrote:
On 09:30, Lorenzo Bettini wrote:I never thought about such a situation actually; I think that that init help function might be made public and callable from outsideSo for N parsers, I have to allocate N args_info structures and call N init functions even in the case I just want to print the short help. Is this behaviour intended?Yes, that would be easiest, one just has to remove the static keyword in the .c file and add the function prototype to the .h file. Alternativly one could change the cmdline_parser_init function so that it just calls init_help() if called with a NULL pointer. Currently, such a usage would lead to a segfault.
mh... probably the first alternative has a cleaner semantics
An alternative would be to initialize also the short help by using string literals, just like the detailed help. The duplicated strings would not increase code size because the compiler should be smart enough to put identical strings into memory only once.please, do not ask for that ;-) ;-)this behavior was requested by other users and it was quite a nightmare to implement it, so I wouldn't want to go back ;-)OK, so I won't argue for this alternative any more :) But out of curiosity, what were the problems in inplementing it this way?
actually, I don't remember all the details now, but the problem was in the generation of code and keeping tracking of all kinds of options and performing the right assignments...
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