[Cluster-devel] Re: [PATCH] gfs2: better code for translating characters

[H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>]

rae l wrote:
> On 8/13/07, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>> You seem to have confused modern compiled C with an old BASIC interpreter.
>>
>> Consider the code in point:
>>
>> -       while ((table = strchr(sdp->sd_table_name, '/')))
>> +       table = sdp->sd_table_name;
>> +       while ((table = strchr(table, '/')))
>>                 *table = '_';
> Sorry, I just mean for call to strchr, things are different,
> especially for multiple '/' chars appeared.

Things are different only for multiple '/' chars.  In that case, the
latter form is better, in the former case, there is no difference.

So it doesn't matter.  One is unambiguously better.

	-hpa