Rob Landley
2018-12-04 23:06:04 UTC
Be consistent about upper versus lower case. (Upper seems to have the
majority, so I went with that, though I'm happy to provide the opposite
patch as long as we're consistent!)
Be consistent about using \t. (Though saving a few bytes seems like it
might be better done in the code that generates help.h rather than
directly in the source, since tabs make careful ASCII art layout hard
enough that we regularly have things misaligned.)
My todo item here is when I get deflate properly merged into lib and gzipmajority, so I went with that, though I'm happy to provide the opposite
patch as long as we're consistent!)
Be consistent about using \t. (Though saving a few bytes seems like it
might be better done in the code that generates help.h rather than
directly in the source, since tabs make careful ASCII art layout hard
enough that we regularly have things misaligned.)
promoted, I should have the option to compress the help text and do a "zcat |
cut" thing inside help.c to go "output the 17th null terminated string".
(I vaguely recall busybox did something like back when I was on that project, I
just haven't had a compression engine in the build yet.)
Won't help standalone builds, but it does help the "common case" of one big
binary you fit in an initramfs. And that should make "run of spaces" vs "tabs"
be basically a wash.
Rob