[Gnu-arch-users] libtla, version_string

[Yann Droneaud]

Hi,

I found that the 'version_string' is duplicated accross almost every
source files correspondig to a command.

$ find tla-1.3/src/tla/libarch/ -name 'cmd*.c'  | wc -l
100

$ strings /home/meuh/bin/tla | grep -c 'from regexps\.com'
97

$ grep 'char.*version_string' tla-1.3/src/tla/libarch/*  | wc -l
97

This is many bytes wasted in the binary to store redundant information,
so we could add a version.c file holding only one defintion of the
version string.

Should I do it (it's something i can easily contribute to tla), or
someone had already done the job ? 

Regards

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