From: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 20:25:51 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] pretty=format: Avoid some expensive calculations when not needed
Message-ID: <1194294351.7158.41.camel@ld0161-tx32>
In-Reply-To: <472F7B2F.4050608@lsrfire.ath.cx>

On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 14:21, René Scharfe wrote:

> How about (ab)using the value field?  Let interp_find_active() mark
> unneeded entries with NULL, and the rest with some cookie.  All table
> entries with non-NULL values need to be initialized.  interp_set_entry()
> needs to be aware of this cookie, as it mustn't free() it.  The cookie
> could be the address of a static char* in interpolate.c.

Or adding a "flags/properties" field and having it
note things like static entries, active, etc...?

jdl