Re: [PATCH v3 2/5] strvec: add a strvec_pushvec()

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Sep 3, 2021, 05:05 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq7dfygsg3.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <87v93i8svd.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> Since the main point of this API is to be a wrapper for what a C main()
> would take, shouldn't its prototype mirror its prototype? I.e. we should
> stick to "int" here?

That's a fair-enough argument.

In other words, we do not mind the upper limit of 2 billion strings, even though we do care that we can have more than 4 billion bytes in any of these strings ;-)

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