[Toybox] ifconfig: error helper?
Isaac Dunham
idunham at lavabit.com
Sat Apr 13 17:56:34 PDT 2013
Hello,
I took a look at ifconfig to see about show_help vs toys.exithelp, and I saw this repeated 16 times ("string" is the only thing that changes):
} else if (!strcmp(*argv, "string")) {
if(*++argv == NULL) {
errno = EINVAL;
show_help();
}
set_string(...)
This looks like a pretty obvious candidate for a helper function that does more than show help and exit.
It would seem one could do something like this:
void nullarg_help(char * args)
{
if (*args == NULL) {
errno = EINVAL;
toys.exithelp++;
error_exit("missing argument");
}
}
..
} else if (!strcmp(*argv, "string")) {
nullarg_help(*++argv);
set_string(...)
I probably got the pointers wrong, but that should show the general idea.
It will drop 40 lines (16 occurrances * 3 lines saved - 8 lines to define).
Any thoughts on this?
HTH,
Isaac Dunham
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