Re: [RFCv2][PATCH 1/4] break units out of string_get_size()

[Dave Hansen]

On Fri, 2011-09-30 at 14:29 -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 09/30/2011 01:32 PM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> > diff -puN lib/string_helpers.c~string_get_size-pow2 lib/string_helpers.c
> >  
> > +const char *units_10[] = { "B", "kB", "MB", "GB", "TB", "PB",
> > +			   "EB", "ZB", "YB", NULL};
> > +const char *units_2[] = {"B", "KiB", "MiB", "GiB", "TiB", "PiB",
> > +			 "EiB", "ZiB", "YiB", NULL };
> 
> These names are way too generic to be public symbols.

Ack, I managed to drop the static when I broke this out for the third
time. :)

> Another thing worth thinking about is whether or not the -B suffix
> should be part of these arrays.

... or the 'i' for that matter.

I'll give it a go.

-- Dave

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