On Fri, May 15, 2026 at 02:32:51PM -0600, Simon Glass wrote: > We have had getopt() for over five years but it is not much used. It is > much easier to understand arg-parsing using getopt() and it avoids > common errors. As the named maintainer I decided to look at how to make > more use of it. > > So this series explores the impact of converting a few commands to use > getopt() instead of ad-hoc parsing. It updates getopt() to handle flags > anywhere in the cmdline and provides a few helpers to reduce > boilerplate. > > The chosen commands are: > > - echo: very simple with no flags > - hash: fairly simple with just one flag > - env grep/export/import - fuller examples > > The series also adds a recommendation to use getopt() for new commands. > > To try to reduce the code-size increase, a lower-case function is added > and called from a few places. The difference is fairly marginal. > > Overall, the result is not pretty (see below) with about a 1.1K size > increase on arm64:
I think that means this is a no-go, and you need to work out what might lead to a much smaller growth here. -- Tom
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