On Thu, 2015-10-29 at 19:02 +0000, Tim Murphy wrote: > 1) The return value must be allocated by the function, after which > make copies it into a buffer and deallocates it. [...] It seems as if > it would be much better to expose GNU make's variable buffer interface > and cut out the extra memory allocations
I'm not sure I understand exactly what you have in mind, but you have to be careful to avoid the "all the world's a POSIX ELF format" syndrome. In some systems shared libraries cannot free memory allocated in other dynamic objects. For example in Windows make shouldn't allocate memory and leave a DLL responsible for freeing it (or vice versa). Given that restriction I'm fine with improving the interface. > 2) There are some functions for seeking tokens in a string that should > also be exposed - to help functions process lists. I agree, although there are too many existing interfaces in make today that parse tokens. I've wanted to try to wrangle them into some semblance of order before I try exporting them. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
