Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Then used_atom[] could become something like > > struct { > const char *str; /* e.g. "align:position=left,32" */ > struct { > const char *part0; /* everything before '=' */ > const char *part1; /* optional */ > } *modifier; > int modifier_nr; > } *used_atom; If the goal is to prepare as much as possible when parsing the format string, I'd even push it one step further and have stg like struct { const char *str; /* e.g. "align:position=left,32" */ union { struct { int position; enum { left, right, center } kind; } align; struct { ....; } objectname; int modifier_nr; } *used_atom; Just a thought, I'm not sure how useful this would be, and this may be too much change for this series (so it may deserve a separate topic). -- Matthieu Moy http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html