Hi folks, <snip> >> We've a lot of places where we have pairs of form (pointer to end >> of buffer, amount of space left in front of that). These sit in pairs of >> variables located next to each other and usually passed by reference. >> Turn those into instances of new type (struct prepend_buffer) and pass >> reference to the pair instead of pairs of references to its fields. >> >> Declared and initialized by DECLARE_BUFFER(name, buf, buflen). >> >> extract_string(prepend_buffer) returns the buffer contents if >> no overflow has happened, ERR_PTR(ENAMETOOLONG) otherwise. >> All places where we used to have that boilerplate converted to use >> of that helper. this smells like a generic enough thing to go into lib, doesn't it ? --mtx -- --- Hinweis: unverschlüsselte E-Mails können leicht abgehört und manipuliert werden ! Für eine vertrauliche Kommunikation senden Sie bitte ihren GPG/PGP-Schlüssel zu. --- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult Free software and Linux embedded engineering info@xxxxxxxxx -- +49-151-27565287
