Re: [help-gengetopt] reducing generated code size

[Lorenzo Bettini]

Dave Swegen wrote:
> Correct me if I'm wrong, but it looks like the code generated could be
> reduced quite substantially in size by using a generic linked list
> struct, rather than one for each option.
> 
> So instead of 
> 
> struct timer_list
> { 
>   int timer_arg;
>   char *timer_orig;
>   struct timer_list * next;
> };
> 
> you could simply do 
> 
> struct list
> {
>    int arg;
>    char *orig;
>    struct list *next;
> }
> 
> Or is there some subtle reason I have missed for doing it this way?

actually you're pretty right!  However I'd still need a different list
for each type (one for int, one for double, etc.).

I'll work on this issue

thanks
        Lorenzo

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