On Wed, 21 Oct 2009 21:32:49 +0100
Alan Maguire <Alan.Maguire at Sun.COM> wrote:

> sorry I missed this earlier. Comments inline below...
> 
> Michael Hunter wrote:
> > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 13:37:28 +0100
> > Alan Maguire <Alan.Maguire at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >
> >   
> >> ...at:
> >>
> >> http://zhadum.east.sun.com/export/ws/amaguire/nwam1-cr/webrev/
> >>     
> >
> > comments on the current implementation in case you don't like my other idea 
> > |:
> >
> > strsep() might be easier then strtok_r().
> >
> > Run over the string once counting spaces so you can allocate the right
> > length of argv and you can't ditch the realloc() logic.
> >   
> 
> What about using the strategy we use in a few places
> in libnwam - we calloc as much memory as we'd conceivably need
> (in this case NWAM_MAX_VALUE_LEN/2 char * pointers
> is the maximum number of arguments we can cram into
> a string property), then we realloc to shrink  down the block
> of char * pointers when we've parsed the string and
> determined the number of arguments?

The realloc to shrink is fine also.  You could use strlen() as the max although

for (count = 0; *cp != 0; cp++) if (isspace(*cp)) count++;

seems reasonable to me.

        Michael

> > numargs is a weird variable name for an index
> >
> >   
> I'll change that. I'll roll these changes into the webrev
> I sent out earlier for 12084/12115. Thanks!
> 
> Alan

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