All of the argument parsing functions are insanely large, at least most of the actual individual argument handling stuff is autogenerated. [edit: a lot of the

All of the argument parsing functions are insanely large, at least most of the actual individual argument handling stuff is autogenerated. [edit: a lot of the older code involves huge single functions, webkit, etc are similar and I suspect it’s true of most projects. It seems like a fairly standard code evolution pattern: a function is written, and keeps have logic added so it becomes bigger and bigger, until eventually someone adds something where refactoring makes enough sense that the functions are broken up. I wonder if someone has ever just done an analysis of commit history vs function size to see just how common this actually is. Something like “how old vs how recently modified vs function size” - I’m genuinely curious]