Re: [PATCH 1/2] parse-options: add int value pointer to struct option

> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>
>> It reduces the memory footprint, but only slightly.  Saving a few bytes
>> for objects with less than a hundred instances total doesn't seem worth
>> the downsides.
>
> It makes it impossible to use the both at the same time, which is a
> bigger (than reduced memory) advantage.  Otherwise, we would be
> tempted to consider that having "void *value" and "int value_int"
> next to each other and allow them to coexist may be a good solution
> for a narrow corner case (please see at the end of the message you
> are responding to).