[cairo] Reducing .data

[Behdad Esfahbod]

On Mon, 2006-12-18 at 09:42 +0100, Jean-Baptiste Note wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I guess you may already be aware of this, but...
> 
> A slightly more beautiful way (to my untrained eye) to do this is
> explained in the DSO howto by Ulrich Drepper. See appendix B,
> "Automatic handling of Arrays of String Pointers" in
> http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf

Yes, I know, and I've been a great fan of it until recently.  When it
came down to using it, I figured I really prefer to keep everything in
the same file.  At least in cairo.

behdad

> You can slightly alter the logic to have a DSO and non-DSO version of
> the code (for instance, for static libraries). The macros can even be
> made a bit more generic so that you can do something like:
> 
> #define ARRAY_FILE "stringtab.h"
> #define LOOKUP_NAME stringarrayname
> #include "stringlookup.h"
> 
> And reuse the stinglookup file for every string array in the code.
> 
> JB
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