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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] perf tools: New function to parse string representing size in bytes

* Hitoshi Mitake <mitake@dcl.info.waseda.ac.jp> wrote:

> > > + length = atoll(str) * unit;
> >
> > we might want to take a naming clue here and name this new function as
> > atoll_exp(), to signal that it works like atoll, just with an extension
> > for KB/MB/GB/etc. expressions?
>
> Hm, how about "atoll_byteunit()"?
> This may have no ambiguity.

I'd suggest to name it in a generic way, in case we want to add other
convenience conversions, hm?

Perhaps simply perf_atoll() - an extended version that understands byte
units (and potentially more in the future).

Ingo


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