[Liboil] Undocumented parameters

David Schleef ds at schleef.org
Sun Dec 10 23:00:23 PST 2006


On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 01:06:57PM +0000, Martin Guy wrote:
>  I'm a big fan of the liboil concept, but at first impact it is let
> down by many function parameters being entirely undocumented.
>  One example is the meaning of the sstr and dstr parameters to all
> the conv functions, which are simply not mentioned anywhere. I can
> fire off a guess - maybe they are "stride" values for source and
> destination, to convert every Nth term? Dunno. Other functions have
> additional explicit *stride* variables. Mystery.
>  I look forward to using and contributing to liboil

The documentation for this is cleverly hidden in the docs for
OilFunctionClass.  Go figure.  It wasn't in the first, second, or
third place I looked for it, either, and I wrote it.  :)



dave...



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