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Re: How to optimize this search?

From Keith Thompson <Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.c
Subject Re: How to optimize this search?
Date 2022-08-23 16:50 -0700
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bart c <bart4858@gmail.com> writes:
> On Tuesday, 23 August 2022 at 21:40:25 UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> bart c <bart...@gmail.com> writes: 
>> > On Tuesday, 23 August 2022 at 20:17:18 UTC+1, Keith Thompson wrote:
>> [...]
>> >> And that's a *lot* of "define"s. It sounds like the code you're 
>> >> looking at is not typical. Your numbers don't match what I see 
>> >> in the latest sqlite3 sources. 
>> > 
>> > Yeah, that looked dodgy. I don't know what's going on there. If I 
>> > compile only sqlite3.c, then I get more reasonable looking figures: 
>> > 
>> > 14010 define 
>> > 08728 if 
>> > 08543 int 
>> > 03115 endif 
>> > 03111 return 
>> > 02658 void 
>> > 02291 else 
>> > 
>> > Note that 10,000 of those defines are inside my windows.h. Also note 
>> >that the same 'if' keyword is used for "'#if". 
>> > 
>> > This is specific to normal C however. We don't know exactly what the 
>> > OP is doing, or what his inputs will be, whether they are already 
>> > preprocessed or not.
>> Ah, so that's 14010 occurrences of "define" after preprocessing. 
>
> This is getting dragged down by mention of preprocessing.

I suggest that 14,000 spurious occurrences of "define" may have skewed
your results.

[...]

>> The point is that if you're processing C source code and recognizing 
>> whether tokens that look like identifiers are keywords or not, it 
>> doesn't make sense to have "define" and "int" in the same table.
>
> Well, they *are* in the same table, and all three kinds of "define"
> share the same slot too. Or does C stipulate how people should
> organise their symbol tables?

Of course it doesn't.  But I don't know why you'd *want* all three kinds
of "define" in the same table.

-- 
Keith Thompson (The_Other_Keith) Keith.S.Thompson+u@gmail.com
Working, but not speaking, for Philips
void Void(void) { Void(); } /* The recursive call of the void */

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