Re: tlug: Linux pool program?

["Andrew S. Howell" <andy@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

>>>>> "Andy" == Andrew S Howell <andy@example.com> writes:
>>>>> "Scott " == Scott Stone <sstone@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> I have no problem with them as long as you show me the
    Stephen> yacc source that generated them :-)

Actually, thats the point. Its not just a simple switch statement, but
a whole bunch of nested ones, with goto's thrown in for fun! 

    Stephen> Seriously, what's the beef?  If it's the natural way to
    Stephen> do things and the compiler handles it efficiently, it's
    Stephen> boring as hell (and if there's substantial code executed
    Stephen> by individual cases you might want to arrange for it to
    Stephen> be inlined---GCC will do that, even in C, although it's
    Stephen> not ANSI---if you can't encapsulate it in functions), but
    Stephen> I don't see anything wrong with it.

For the person who wrote it, maybe there is nothing wrong, but for
anyone that has to maintain it, well, its a nightmare. Anyway, we got
out of that business :)

When it worked, it worked well, and was quite useful. On the down
side, it was also very good at generating core dumps. 

Andy
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