From: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Jul 2010 19:47:28 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] string_list: Add STRING_LIST_INIT macro and make use of it.
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On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thiago Farina wrote:
>
>> Acked-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
>
> Um, I am not so fond of this one.
>
> The argument to STRING_LIST_INIT is hard to interpret without
> familiarity.  What did you think of Peter’s suggestion to use an a
> different macro for the strdup_strings case?  Something like
> STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP_ON_APPEND, but perhaps shorter.
>
If we are fine, would be the following?

#define STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP { NULL, 0, 0, 0 }
#define STRING_LIST_INIT_DUP { NULL, 0, 0, 1 }

> It would also be nice to update
> Documentation/technical/api-string-list.txt with whatever you choose.
>
Sure, I will update it.

> That said, I do like the goal of making it easier to reorganize
> struct string_list later if needed.
>