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Re: Where can i get the design documentation for core utils?
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Where can i get the design documentation for core utils? |
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Sun, 11 Sep 2005 15:15:26 +0200 |
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address@hidden (David Feuer) writes:
> It is surely true that I am not the best programmer in the world. But
> when faced by things like glibc-2.3.5/locale/coll-lookup.c I suspect
> even a fancy New York keyboard jockey would wonder just what it was all
> about.
It's actually rather easy to grok, just some multi-level table lookup,
with each level being indexed by different bit fields from the key as
described by the first five entries in the table. And the variable are
named with quite descriptive names.
Andreas.
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