Don't overlook efficient C/C++ command line processing

Posted by solrac on Jul 28, 2007 5:25 PM EDT
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This article provides a reference for a good discussion on how to use gperf for effective command-line processing in your C/C++ code.

Command-line processing is historically one of the most ignored areas in software development. Just about any relatively complicated software has dozens of available command-line options. The GNU tool gperf is a "perfect" hash function that, for a given set of user-provided strings, generates C/C++ code for a hash table, a hash function, and a lookup function. This article provides a reference for a good discussion on how to use gperf for effective command-line processing in your C/C++ code.

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