Re: Getting the file name from a FILE *

Richard Tobin wrote:
> In article <a4b54$48651e78$541fc2ec$18525@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Serve Lau <nihao@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> 
>> Resource heavy software like commercial games do not use malloc, they
often 
>> implement their own memory manager. Adding the filename inside FILE now

>> introduces an obligatory malloc that wont be used.
> 
> And just what problem will this cause in practice?
> 
> The idea that "resource heavy" games might be significantly affected by
> a few dozen malloc()ed bytes for each open file seems implausible, to
> say the least.
> 
> -- Richard

That kind of software uses megabytes of memory easily, but they do
not open a lot of files, just a few configuration files, images
and such, never more than (say) 100 files opened at the same
time at most. With an average path length of say 100 we have
around 10K.

BIG DEAL!


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