Re: Implementing tables with fewer source files

On Tue, Sep 2, 2008 at 5:39 PM, Wes Hardaker
<[email protected]> wrote:
>>>>>> On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:47:25 -0600, eggyknap <[email protected]> said:
>
> e> I'm writing an agent, and found that mib2c using the mib for dummies
> e> config makes about 12 source files for each table I implement. I
> e> modify a few lines of the autogenerated code, and add it to my
> e> makefile. I'd really like to make my agent somewhat smaller (i.e. less
> e> code) -- can I do that? I realize it might not be particularly simple,
> e> and I can live with having to do some reading, but I'd like pointers.
> e> Thanks in advance.
>
> You might check out some of the other output styles of mib2c.  The
> iterator mechanisms, for instance, probably produce the smallest amount
> of code.  The MFD stuff produces a lot of extra comments and
> compartmentalized functions for you to fill in, which makes the code
> "look" larger.

I'll do that. Looking smaller is certainly something, and certainly a
simple count of source files isn't a great way of figuring code size.
Admittedly, though, I'd hoped for code that *really was* smaller. It
seems that despite the fact that each table is structured uniquely,
each of the tables should share almost all the code. I guess that's
probably possible, if I wanted to rewrite net-snmp with that as my
highest priority :)

- Josh

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