Hi,

On Thu, 6 Sep 2007, René Scharfe wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin schrieb:
> >> +
> >> +		b = memchr(a, '$', len);
> >> +		if (!b || a + len < b + 9 || memcmp(b + 1, "Format:", 7))
> >> +			break;
> > 
> > Wouldn't memmem(buffer, len, "$Format:", 8) be better here?
> 
> Oh, that's a nice GNU extension, didn't know it before.

Oh sorry, I didn't even realise that this is a GNU extension...

> > A general comment: since you plan to output the result into a file 
> > anyway, it should be even easier to avoid realloc(), and do a 
> > print_formatted_specfile() instead of a format_specfile(), no?
> 
> Hmm, not sure what you mean.  At least archive-tar needs the expanded 
> contents in a buffer (not immediately written to stdout) because it 
> tries to mimic a real tar and always writes in blocks of 10k and 
> therefore needs to buffer the output.

Yeah, I missed that.  Thanks for explaining it to me!

Ciao,
Dscho