Reasoning:
- implementation was unsound -- broke down when I added a fairly
basic macro definition expanding to a struct initializer in a *.c
file.
- made it way too easy (e.g. via otherwise totally innocuous git
commands) to end up with timestamps such that it always ran
MakeHeader.py but never used its output, leading to overbuild noise
when running what should be a null 'make'.
- but mostly: it's just an awkward way of dealing with C code.
Use strncmp() combined with a strlen() will give better performance
than a strstr in worst case. Especially when the match prefix is a
constant and not a variable.
While we are at it, replace the match() function in linux/Battery.c,
which uses a naive algorithm, with a macro that does better job by
utilizing Strings_startWith().
$ gcc --version | head -n 1
gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.4-2ubuntu1~14.04.3) 4.8.4
$ uname -m
x86_64
$ size htop.old htop.new
text data bss dec hex filename
137929 15112 3776 156817 26491 htop.old
137784 15104 3776 156664 263f8 htop.new
Signed-off-by: Kang-Che Sung <explorer09 @ gmail.com>
Benny Baumann