Re: argp spec

[Miles Bader]

address@hidden (Niels Möller) writes:
> This version have also been hacked so that it doesn't depend on
> getopt, and should thus be reentrant.

Really?  Cool!  I've wanted to do that for _years_, but never quite got
around to it.

Did you do a major rewrite of the parser, or put in a hacked version of
getopt_long that's reentrant?

[BTW, when I looked at your CVS tree a while back, one problem I had was
that there didn't seem to be any convenient CVS tags so that I could
easily find the base glibc version you started from (maybe I just missed
them), so trying to find a minimal set of changes was a bit hard]

Perhaps this is the time to do it for real, since a non-getopt-using
version would be easier to maintain, smaller (though I guess the main
bulk of argp is actually the help-printing code), and remove various odd
limitations (reentrancy being one; another is the inability to use
ARGP_PARSE_ARGV0 without also using ARGP_NO_ERRS).

Thanks,

-Miles
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