+ in the interest of robustness, I added
utility.c :: cstring_alloc()
utility.c :: cstring_lineFromFile() /* they're at the bottom */
so that I could read in lines of arbitrary length from FILE*s
(instead of using fgets(huge_ass_buffer,...)).
+ I tested it out on sort, and it seems to be fine.
diff --git a/utility.c b/utility.c
index c3a102c..42b8dc1 100644
--- a/utility.c
+++ b/utility.c
@@ -1521,6 +1521,57 @@
}
#endif
+const unsigned int CSTRING_BUFFER_LENGTH = 128;
+/* recursive parser that returns cstrings of arbitrary length
+ * from a FILE*
+ */
+static char *
+cstring_alloc(FILE* f, int depth)
+{
+ char *cstring;
+ char buffer[CSTRING_BUFFER_LENGTH];
+ int target = CSTRING_BUFFER_LENGTH * depth;
+ int i, len;
+ int size;
+
+ /* fill buffer */
+ i = 0;
+ while ((buffer[i] = fgetc(f)) != EOF) {
+ if (buffer[i++] == 0x0a) { break; }
+ if (i == CSTRING_BUFFER_LENGTH) { break; }
+ }
+ len = i;
+
+ /* recurse or malloc? */
+ if (len == CSTRING_BUFFER_LENGTH) {
+ cstring = cstring_alloc(f, (depth + 1));
+ } else {
+ /* [special case] EOF */
+ if ((depth | len) == 0) { return NULL; }
+
+ /* malloc */
+ size = target + len + 1;
+ cstring = malloc(size);
+ if (!cstring) { return NULL; }
+ cstring[size - 1] = 0;
+ }
+
+ /* copy buffer */
+ if (cstring) {
+ memcpy(&cstring[target], buffer, len);
+ }
+ return cstring;
+}
+
+/*
+ * wrapper around recursive cstring_alloc
+ * it's the caller's responsibility to free the cstring
+ */
+char *
+cstring_lineFromFile(FILE *f)
+{
+ return cstring_alloc(f, 0);
+}
/* END CODE */
/*