Re: kconfig: avoid temporary file

[Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi,

On Friday 31 December 2004 00:52, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

> # scripts/kconfig/mconf.c
> #   2004/12/30 22:29:51+01:00 sam@mars.ravnborg.org +78 -28
> #   introduce a general growable string.
> #   Allow us to skip one additional temporary file

I'm not really against the change, but the reason is weird. In the end the 
string is still written to a file anyway...

> +/* Growable string. Allocates memory as needed when string expands */
> +struct gstr {
> + char *s;
> + size_t len;
> +};

I would prefer something more like this:

struct gstr {
 int size;
 char s[0];
};

and this would be better names for the functions:

struct gstr *str_new(void);
void str_free(struct gstr *gs);
void str_append(struct gstr *gs, const char *s);

It would be useful to have these sort of functions in the library, so we can 
e.g. use them to dynamically generate the help text.

bye, Roman