jbickers@templar.actrix.co.nz (John Bickers) (06/09/90)
After stumping around the distribution disks for long enough, I finally
located where grep.lib had been hidden. :)
I want to use these functions, but it seems that they use malloc() and
exit(), and expect the RAM they allocate with malloc() to be cleaned
up when the program finishes (in fact, it looks like they can terminate
the program themselves, if an error occurs. NOT what I want to do...).
I do not want to use the malloc stuff, nor do I want to use exit or
MemCleanup. Nor do I want these routines churning out error messages to
stdout... :)
I could, maybe, use fake routines for all these - but is there an
easier way? Has anyone gone in and adjusted the code to remove these
features? Is it even possible to use fake routines?
Is that an ok thing to do (changing the code, I mean)?
Some alternatives are using Dave Haynie's filename matching code (but
it's not filename matching I'm doing), or writing my own (a simple
extension of KMP to handle wildcards) which means no [...] type
expressions.
Are there other alternatives? Arp, perhaps (I don't have the
programming parts of the Arp distribution).
Hm. Replies in email, if you wish. Me-toos in email too, I think.
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