here is setterm and a gratituos question

[Jason Schoon]

Rob's right, the best way to save space with string constants is a lookup 
table.

It doesn't cost any extra CPU time to do it the way I generally use. You 
just create an array of static const strings, and use a pointer to the 
desired string in all necessary places.

It has the benefit of having one change propogate to many place, just like 
using a #define, however, the compiler can point all instances at the same 
spot in memory. Also, as pointed out, it makes internationalization trivial.


On 9/4/05, Lord Sidiuz <alastors at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >With a lookup table, we organize the suckers and make sure there's one 
> copy of
> >them ourselves. And since we have to move it out to a seperate file for
> >translation purposes anyway, a lookup table is easy to do. (If all 
> elsefails
> >it can be built by a script...)
> >
> >Rob
> 
> I don't know what is a lookup table, if this takes cpu time I wont
> like it, i prefer
> to have a few duplacated strings, but I now that busybox is developed
> with sized in mind, not optimizacion.
> 
> ok sow now i send the patch setterm i hope it gets to be in bb
> 
> and one thing, the way i handle the arguments it copied from what i
> see in lots of code in bb but i really would like to do that in other
> way, how do you do that,
> what i have in mind is something like:
> 
> while ( (opt = my_get_opt( argc, argv )) != -1 ) {
> 
> switch ( opt ){
> 
> case 215: //this is total for 'f'+'o'+'r'+'e'+'g'+'r'+'o'+'u'+'n'+'d'
> i++ ;
> loco= i+j ;
> gnsdkgn;
> sfdhfht();
> etc;
> 
> case 232: //this is total for 'b'+'a'+'c'+'k'+'g'+'r'+'o'+'u'+'n'+'d'
> i++ ;
> loco= i+j ;
> gnsdkgn;
> sfdhfht();
> etc;
> }
> 
> }
> 
> i don't like to compare two strings so this does the same job but no
> strings are declared for compare later and i think is more eficient.
> 
> but this has some bad things, i think it is not portable, it depends
> on the machine using ascii and two strings can have the same total
> 
> what's your opinion??
> 
> PD: I don't really know how to use diff nor patch so the file migth be
> dangerous use with care jeje.
> 
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