cvs commit: hugs98/src prelude.h machdep.c

[Alastair Reid]

>  The Right Thing would be to dynamically allocate the
>  buffers that currently use these constants.

Hugs' internal structure would benefit greatly from writing a little C module 
for managing strings and cleaning up all the ad hoc cruft that has 
accumulated over the years.  Most of the operations are obvious: create, 
release (reference counted???), append, substring, index,  rindex, notdir, 
basename, substitute (or expand environment variables), etc.  A few more 
operations would suggest themselves from existing code.

So, if you find yourself changing the code to do dynamic allocation, you might 
make it a nice, clear module by itself and then we can work on gradually 
using it more often and on adding more operations.  (But in the years that I 
worked on Hugs, I never got the energy to do that - it was never easier than 
the kludge I was currently applying and it's such a boring part of the 
system...)

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Alastair