Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 0/4] Introduce strtosz and make use of it

[Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>]

On 10/22/10 09:59, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com writes:
>> From: Jes Sorensen <Jes.Sorensen@redhat.com>
>> This patch introduces cutils.c: strtosz() and gets rid of the
>> multiple custom hacks for parsing byte sizes. In addition it adds
>> supports for specifying human style sizes such as 1.5G. Last it
>> eliminates the horrible abuse of a float to store the byte size for
>> migrate_set_speed in the monitor.
>>
>> Note, this is tested on Linux and build tested for win32 using
>> mingw32.
>>
>> v9: I worked through a couple of revisions directly with Markus and I
>> think I got it right finally. 
> 
> I'd prefer to have strtosz() to match strtol() & friends and not
> restrict suffixes.  But this code does what it claims to do, as far as I
> can see, so:
> 
> ACK series

Thanks!

I thought about this a fair bit and I believe doing the full test in the
function is the most valuable. It's a personal preference obviously.
I think it's a win to do it here since it simplifies the caller code.

Would be great to get this applied so I can get it off my plate :)

Cheers,
Jes