[Oisf-devel] Spliting large detect.c file

Anoop Saldanha anoopsaldanha at gmail.com
Fri Sep 6 15:36:17 UTC 2013


On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 8:49 PM, Kenneth Steele <ken at tilera.com> wrote:
> I’m looking into splitting detect.c into smaller files, since it is now over
> 11K lines. The original thought was to split out SIMD implementations into
> their own files, but that is a small fraction of the total lines of the
> file.
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> I think it might be more logical to split the file based on if the functions
> are used at run-time or for building the signature structures.
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> Thoughts?
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Yeah, that would make sense, although it would better to pick a period
when we are not working on stuff that has significant changes in that
file.  Rebase would then be out of question and requires manual
editing.

I currently have uncommited code that depends on the file.

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