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From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@spearce.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:56:47 -0500
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Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:
> 
> > Would this be less error-prone, and just as efficient?:
> >
> > #define PATH_REMOTES "remotes/"
> > #define LIT_STRLEN(S) ((sizeof(S) / sizeof(S[0])) -1)
> > #define STRLEN_PATH_REMOTES LIT_STRLEN(PATH_REMOTES)
> 
> sizeof(char) is always 1.

Except when someone does something silly, like say:

	#define char double

:-)

-- 
Shawn.