On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 09:18:00AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Mar 2026 15:34:02 +1100
> David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 25, 2026 at 01:56:22AM +0100, Stefano Brivio wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > So, you've convinced me in principle, but I'm not putting this at the
> > top of my priorities.  Using malloc() makes things a bit easier while
> > we're playing around with the protocol a bunch.  Once we look
> > reasonably close to a v1 protocol, I'll do the malloc() removal.
> 
> Sure, it makes sense, it's definitely not needed right now. I guess it
> will mostly be a matter of passing a number to the _str() functions and
> share constants between client and server.

I've actually already eliminated the _str() functions in my latest
draft.  The less convenient case is allocating the arrays of pifs and
rules, I'll tackle that when I get to it.

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