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

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Message-ID: <20091115051155.GB5427@nowhere>
Date:	Sun, 15 Nov 2009 06:11:57 +0100
From:	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
To:	Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf tools: New function to parse string representing
	size in bytes

On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 12:50:45PM +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
> This patch modifies util/string.[ch] to add new function: bytesexp2int()
> to parse string representing size in bytes.
> 
> Below is the description of bytesexp2int().
> 
> Parse (\d+)(b|B|kb|KB|mb|MB|gb|GB) (e.g. "256MB")
> and return its numeric value. (e.g. 268435456)
> 
> The parameter str is not changed before and after calling,
> but it changed temporally and internally for atoi().
> So type of str is char *, not const char *.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@....info.waseda.ac.jp>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
> ---
>  tools/perf/util/string.c |   89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  tools/perf/util/string.h |    1 +
>  2 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/tools/perf/util/string.c b/tools/perf/util/string.c
> index 04743d3..bbedb06 100644
> --- a/tools/perf/util/string.c
> +++ b/tools/perf/util/string.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
>  #include <string.h>
> +#include <stdlib.h>
>  #include "string.h"
>  
>  static int hex(char ch)
> @@ -43,3 +44,91 @@ char *strxfrchar(char *s, char from, char to)
>  
>  	return s;
>  }
> +
> +static int digit(char ch)
> +{
> +	if ('0' <= ch && ch <= '9')
> +		return 1;
> +	return 0;
> +}



We have a "isdigit" macro in util.h already, despite the even already
existing isdigit from the libc. I don't know why we have that. I guess
it comes from git sources but I'm not sure why it has been reimplemented.

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