Re: No declaration for --no-strlen

[Bruno Haible]

Hi Behdad,

You wrote on 2008-11-26, in
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-utils/2008-11/msg00049.html>:

> Seems to me like there is no gperf declaration for the commandline argument
> --no-strlen.  I found declarations for all other cmdline args I wanted to use
> except for this one.

None of the command-line options mentioned under
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/html_node/Algorithmic-Details.html
has a corresponding declaration for the input file. The reason is that the
default algorithm is usually good enough, and there is rarely a reason to use
these options.

> Well, -m and friends don't have any, but they do not 
> specify the nature of the table data while --no-strlen kinda does.

No, --no-strlen does not specify anything about the table data. The flag that
tells whether the strings in the table are NUL-terminated is --compare-lengths,
see
  http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf/manual/html_node/Output-Details.html

Bruno