[Toybox] RFC: od toy

[Andre Renaud]

Hi,
I've started to do an implementation of 'od' - it is most of the way
there, but I'm not particularly happy with the method I've used for
determining which 'printf' format string and which data alignment to
use. At the moment I'm essentially reparsing the -t XX parameters each
time you want to print a new character, which has pretty hideous
performance (and currently doesn't support the -to2o4 syntax). I'm
debating about pre-parsing these, and then a list of function
pointers. This would also require me to have ~20 tiny stub functions,
which basically just do a printf with a different format string & data
type, and return the length of data that they've consumed (or possibly
iterate over an entire line, I haven't decided).

Does anyone have any comments about an alternative method to do this?

Thanks,
Andre

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