From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 18:55:45 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/7] enforce `xfuncname` precedence over `funcname`
Message-ID: <xmqq61il6zf2.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <vpqlhrh9vtf.fsf@anie.imag.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

>>> I'd just replace "list" with "array" and use
>>> Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt.
>>>
>>> But I can't think of a better way.
>>
>> Presumably this array will reflect the order the source file told us
>> about the keys and their values; I wonder if the <filename, lineno>
>> information we already have can be used (or unified) with it?
>
> I've thought about this too, and I think it would be really hard.

Yeah, I do not offhand think of a good solution, either, without
going pointer-crazy and have bidirectional link everywhere X-<.