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From: Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>
To: Thunder from the hill <thunder@lightweight.ods.org>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	junio@siamese.dyndns.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] strlen("literal string") -> (sizeof("literal string")-1)
Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:48:45 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020829174845.G17887@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208290938180.3234-100000@hawkeye.luckynet.adm>; from thunder@lightweight.ods.org on Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:39:14AM -0600

On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:39:14AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:

 > > 	#define strlen(x) \
 > > 		(__builtin_constant_p(x) && sizeof(x) != sizeof(char *)
 > > 		? (sizeof(x) - 1) : __strlen(x))
 > 
 > I must say that doesn't make the code any cleaner, which leads to it being 
 > not as clean as Keith suggested. It was a code cleanup, not a code messup.

Sure the macro is fugly, but the code that uses it becomes
cleaner which was the whole point here.

        Dave

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| Dave Jones.        http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
| SuSE Labs

  reply	other threads:[~2002-08-29 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <fa.lrmcokv.1q28k2s@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.pm2g4iv.k0s9jg@ifi.uio.no>
2002-08-29  0:49   ` [TRIVIAL] strlen("literal string") -> (sizeof("literal string")-1) junio
2002-08-29  3:15     ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-29 15:39       ` Thunder from the hill
2002-08-29 15:48         ` Dave Jones [this message]
2002-08-30  3:50         ` Rusty Russell
     [not found] <20020829031008.T7920@devserv.devel.redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
     [not found] ` <Pine.LNX.4.44.0208290955280.2070-100000@home.transmeta.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2002-08-29 17:23   ` Andi Kleen
2002-08-29 17:51     ` Alexander Viro
2002-08-29 17:53       ` Andi Kleen
     [not found] <fa.iks3ohv.1flge08@ifi.uio.no>
2002-08-28 21:31 ` junkio
2002-08-28 21:55   ` Jim Treadway
2002-08-29  3:09   ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-29  3:26     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-08-29  6:29       ` Rusty Russell
2002-08-29  7:10         ` Jakub Jelinek
2002-08-29 16:56           ` Linus Torvalds
2002-08-29 20:38             ` Denis Zaitsev
2002-09-06 12:53   ` Pavel Machek

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