[PATCH] make id conform SUSv3 and Coreutils id - different approach

[walter harms]

Tito schrieb:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008 21:43:24 Tito wrote:
>> On Thursday 11 September 2008 19:26:48 Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
>>> I'd make this both FEATURED and depending on CONFIG_DESKTOP, Walter.
>>>
> 
> Hi,
> just for fun here is a different approach for adding the -G switch to id.
> I tested it a bit and it seems to work and to behave like the GNU id.
> Maybe this code could be added to CONFIG_DESKTOP.
> Size increase is:
> function                                             old     new   delta
> id_main                                              293     494    +201
> .rodata                                           118792  118823     +31
> printf_full                                           49      44      -5
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 232/-5)            Total: 227 bytes
> 
> 
> Hints, critics and improvements are as always welcome.
> 


I did not compile it but it looks ok at first glance.

We should not go for CONFIG_DESKTOP since we trend to emulate coreutils default
behavier as "normal". id clearly did differ here, not nice for size but ....

btw: do we have a list what we want to say with:
CONFIG_DESKTOP or FEATURED ? Just i few lines that explain the idea behind it ?
(beside the help stuff in the makefile ?)

re,
  wh