On 10 Jul 2014, at 18:13, Adrian Chadd <adr...@freebsd.org> wrote: > ... I think this particular commit highlights our almost complete lack > of useful data types in our C libraries. > > I think it's about time we grew a similar list of basic DSAs. > > I had to reimplement hash tables, trees and callwheels at work recently. Ugh.
This is important in a wider context. For example, in the project to add machine-readable output to core utilities, we'd like to be able to parse these into the same machine-readable format. Apple has the CoreFoundation library for this, which provides a load of stuff, but most importantly number, string, date, dictionary, and array types (i.e. the sorts of things that you'd want in JSON-like serialisation formats). The simplest way of implementing this would be to just provide some C wrappers around the libc++ implementations, but that might not be ideal... David _______________________________________________ svn-src-head@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-head To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-head-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
