From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 04:36:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] Add strbuf_printf() to do formatted printing to a strbuf.
Message-ID: <7vhcnlgpeo.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <11858309322006-git-send-email-krh@redhat.com>

Kristian Høgsberg <krh@redhat.com> writes:

> +static void inline strbuf_grow(struct strbuf *sb, size_t extra)
> +{
> +	while (sb->alloc < sb->len + extra)
>  		sb->alloc = sb->alloc * 3 / 2 + 16;
> +	sb->buf = xrealloc(sb->buf, sb->alloc);
> +}

Somehow this while () loop to compute the growth factor bothers
me but that is probably a minor detail.

> +void strbuf_printf(struct strbuf *sb, const char *fmt, ...)
> +{
> +	char one_line[2048];
> +	va_list args;
> +	int len;

Such a nice abstraction so far, and then at the highest level of
callchain we have this hardcoded limit?