Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, dealt with babes, poked mail. Experimented trying to construct a const/static string, which (I guess) should be a simple thing: I want to go from: "foo" to: struct rtl_uString { (1<<31)+1, strlen("foo"), { 'f', 'o', 'o' /* UTF-16 */ } } Unfortunately, that appears somewhat difficult. It'd be a great problem to crack though, making it easy to conditionally (gcc only?) move a ton of strings into .rodata, save a load of heap, and save doing any ref-counting on them too).
Ferried cake to Tim & Coleen's to celebrate his return from the desert; dropped babes at the doctors, washed up waiting for Janine.
Eventually after much fiddling came up with a nice 'magic' macro:
```
typedef struct {
    int ref;
    int len;
    const wchar_t buffer[4];
} Str;
#define DECL_STR(a) \
    ((Str *)(&((const struct { int r; int l; const wchar_t b[strlen(a) + 1]; } ) { (1<<30)+1, strlen(a), L##a })))
...
printStr(DECL_STR("Foo"));
```
The GCC page on Compound Literals is quite helpful. Unfortunately gcc (apparently) doesn't elide duplicate DECL_STR generated output in .rodata sections (which is interesting in itself perhaps). (sample).
Committed the relevant new stuff to CWS salstrintern, added some regression tests for the string interning logic, that appears to work (so far). Hacked away fixing various issues.
Started working all the evil mis-uses of the RTL_CONSTASCII_USTRINGPARAM macro from around the place, a good number of places. Re-building laptop, installed lots of packages, recalled that the moaning about xulrunner-xpcom really means 'install gecko-sdk' on SLED.
Ran aground with my CONSTASCII stuff in xmloff - clearly a heavy string user; lots of cleverness (which should no longer be necessary) in order to avoid having static OUString constructors, that breaks my plan a little; bother.
Income tax fun in the evening.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2007-01-26: Friday