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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: replace strlen("string") with sizeof("string") -1
Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2012 12:26:58 +0200
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Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Pavel Vasilyev <pavel@pavlinux.ru>

Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> writes:

> ...both give the number of chars in the string
> without the '\0', as strncmp() wants,
> but sizeof() is compile-time.

Does this actually change anything?  The compiler is able to expand
strlen at compile time if the argument is a constant, provided that that
builtin strlen isn't disabled.

Andreas.

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