proposal to start merging some source files in libbb/

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Thu, 18 May 2006, Paul Fox wrote:

>  > months back.  it seems that there's just too many trivial source files
>  > in libbb/, and some of them could be merged and be even more
>  > meaningful afterwards.
>  >
>  >   as a trivial example,
>  >
>  > 	create_icmp_socket.c
>  > 	create_icmp6_socket.c
>  >
>  > those files each define a single function, and have common includes,
>
> is it not it true that one can build a busybox that only needs one
> of these?  if so, won't combining them in a single .o cause them
> both to be pulled in all the time?

BTW, my longer-term thought is to do a fair bit more merging to
collect related functions into the same single source file.  i can
imagine something like

libbb/string_ops.c
	trim()
	chomp()
	last_char_is()
	bb_skip_whitespace()

and so on.  at the moment, each of those functions sucks up its own
source file, for no obvious reason.

rday