svn 15195

[Rich Felker]

On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 05:14:56PM -0400, Rob Landley wrote:
> 3) I think a better thing to do would be to figure out how to move the long 
> options to usage.h.  (Since we have to document the applet's arguments there 
> anyway, we might as well _define_ them.)  Remember how we were talking about 
> a rewrite of bb_getopt_ulflags to not use getopt()?  I have a vague plan for 
> having long options look something like:
> 
> char **sed_longopts = {
> 	"x" "fruitbasket",
> 	"y" "walrus",
> 	"z" "turquoise",
> 	""
> };

char ** and char *[] waste (a lot of!) space and make readonly data
into data if you use pic/pie. Using a single string with a separator
character is better. \0 makes a good separator.

Rich