Re: debconf client support in cdebconf
Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 12:05:34AM -0700 wrote:
> In reference to a message from David Whedon, dated Dec 10:
> > This is an unrelated patch to debconfclient.c. I don't know if people
> > will like it, or if it just makes code harder to read. The idea is that we
> > don't want to take up a lot of space with "INPUT", "GET" in a bunch of places
> > all around the tree.
>
> Hm... I'd rather do this with a string lookup table and macro integer
> constants. I'll put something like this in tomorrow. something along the
> lines of:
>
> static char *dc_command_strings[] = {
> "INPUT", "GET", ...
> };
>
> #define DC_INPUT 0
> #define DC_GET 1
> ...
>
> sounds ok to you?
That sounds better. Though I'm no longer sure this will save us much
(anything?). I did some more tests and it may be that we end up needing more
instructions to load the far away addresses. I don't know x86 asm well at all,
it's difficult to be sure of what's going on.
-David
>
> randolph
>
>
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