From: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Yann Dirson <ydirson@altern.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add memrchr()
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2010 05:31:41 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTinBuAhLLUMLd6ZWtVFWCjnFAxYwVSo1Pkja7bT4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20101015051750.GA21830@burratino>
On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 05:17, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> wrote:
> Reimplement another handy convenience function from glibc. memrchr()
> searches from the end of a memory area for a particular character. It
> is similar to strrchr() but takes a length argument and is
> binary-safe.
>
> The whole-directory rename detection patch could use this to find the
> last directory separator in a (possibly truncated) pathname.
Maybe something like this for configure.ac:
AC_CHECK_LIB([c], [memchr],
[HAVE_MEMRCHR=YesPlease],
[HAVE_MEMRCHR=])
AC_SUBST(HAVE_MEMRCHR)
And documentation with the other HAVE_* variables at the top of the
Makefile?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-15 5:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-14 23:29 [PATCH v6 0/5] Detection of directory renames Yann Dirson
2010-10-14 23:29 ` [PATCH v6 1/5] Introduce bulk-move detection in diffcore Yann Dirson
2010-10-14 23:29 ` [PATCH v6 2/5] Add testcases for the --detect-bulk-moves diffcore flag Yann Dirson
2010-10-14 23:29 ` [PATCH v6 3/5] [RFC] Handle the simpler case of a subdir invalidating bulk move Yann Dirson
2010-10-14 23:29 ` [PATCH v6 4/5] [RFC] Consider all parents of a file as candidates for bulk rename Yann Dirson
2010-10-14 23:29 ` [PATCH v6 5/5] [WIP] Allow hiding renames of individual files involved in a directory rename Yann Dirson
2010-10-17 19:24 ` [PATCH v6.1] [RFC] Consider all parents of a file as candidates for bulk rename Yann Dirson
2010-10-15 5:17 ` [PATCH] compat: add memrchr() Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 5:31 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason [this message]
2010-10-15 6:06 ` Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 10:49 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2010-10-15 22:27 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-10-15 6:57 ` Johannes Sixt
2010-10-15 8:56 ` Ludvig Strigeus
2010-10-15 15:26 ` [PATCH v2] " Jonathan Nieder
2010-10-15 8:56 ` [PATCH] " Erik Faye-Lund
2010-10-15 9:35 ` Johannes Sixt
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