linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] perf tools: New function to parse string representing size in bytes

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Message-Id: <20091115.203228.50774015.mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp>
Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:32:28 +0900 (JST)
From:	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
To:	mingo@...e.hu
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl,
	paulus@...ba.org, fweisbec@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perf tools: New function to parse string
 representing size in bytes

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] perf tools: New function to parse string representing size in bytes
Date: Sun, 15 Nov 2009 12:04:32 +0100

> 
> * Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp> wrote:
> 
> > > > +	length = atoll(str) * unit;
> > > 
> > > we might want to take a naming clue here and name this new function as 
> > > atoll_exp(), to signal that it works like atoll, just with an extension 
> > > for KB/MB/GB/etc. expressions?
> > 
> > Hm, how about "atoll_byteunit()"?
> > This may have no ambiguity.
> 
> I'd suggest to name it in a generic way, in case we want to add other 
> convenience conversions, hm?
> 
> Perhaps simply perf_atoll() - an extended version that understands byte 
> units (and potentially more in the future).

OK. I name the function perf_atoll().
I'll send the patch later.

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