Re: Utility functions

[Paul Eggert]

On 11/08/2012 03:38 AM, Dmitry Bogatov wrote:

>     static inline void *
>     xrangedup (const void *begin, const void *end)
>     {
>       return xstrdup (begin, (char *) end - (char *) begin);
>     }

Yes, something like that could be useful, though this
particular example won't work since xstrdup takes just
one arg.

> In it, there is pretty untrivial code for getting home directory in
> non-GNU systems. 

That might be useful as a module, yes.

> Another routine, also related to wget, is parsing .netrc file

I don't know about that one (I don't know what a .netrc file is....).

> And, another, unrelated question, why gl_INIT macro begins with
> small letters?

It's somewhat arbitrary, but at this point that convention is
pretty common (gl_XALLOC, gl_YIELD, etc.) so I wouldn't mess
with it.