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Don't Overlook Efficient C/C++ Cmd Line Processing

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the also-don't-eat-yellow-snow dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Command-line processing is historically one of the most ignored areas in software development. Just about any relatively complicated software has dozens of available command-line options. The GNU tool gperf is a "perfect" hash function that, for a given set of user-provided strings, generates C/C++ code for a hash table, a hash function, and a lookup function. This article provides a reference for a good discussion on how to use gperf for effective command-line processing in your C/C++ code."

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  1. C++ I get by WED+Fan · · Score: -1, Troll

    O.k., I get C++. It's still viable, but C? Since I moved to C++ way, way, way back when, I haven't had much use for C, hell, I've even moved away from C++. So, I haven't tracked projects or systems that still use C. Aside from those still doing C on ATMELS and PIC, who is using it?

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