Hyrum K Wright wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 6:49 AM, Johan Corveleyn <jcor...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > And one more thing came to mind with regards to the new API
> > (datasources_open function): currently it only supports up to 4
> > datasources, so not an arbitrary number of datasources (the
> > implementation in diff_file.c assumes that anyway, because it has to
> > use some local array variables, so needs a fixed array length).
>
> I noticed these variables. It seems that we should get rid of the
> magic number ('4'), and replace it either with a sizeof() or a macro
> from somewhere. Not sure what the best approach is, but arbitrary
> numbers tickle my spidey sense.
I'm not looking at the code right now, but if it has multiple variables
each declared as an array[4], then a better way is usually to put all
the vars in a struct and have a single array of struct[4]. That's if
they make sense together and are all [4] for the same reason, of course.
- Julian
