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From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: Bernd Eckenfels <ecki@lina.inka.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: beware of dead string constants
Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:39:25 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A1DAAAD.28786302@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E13z5nt-0007ig-00@calista.inka.de>

Bernd Eckenfels wrote:
> 
> In article <14874.25691.629724.306563@wire.cadcamlab.org> you wrote:
> > This is mostly a heads-up to say that in this regard gcc is not ready
> > for prime time, so we really can't get away with using if() as an ifdef
> > yet, at least not without penalty.
> 
> Humm.. whats the Advantage of this?

Advantage of what?

If you mean preferring 'if ()' over 'ifdef'... Linus.  :)  And I agree
with him:  code looks -much- more clean without ifdefs.  And the
compiler should be smart enough to completely eliminate code inside an
'if (0)' code block.

	Jeff


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  reply	other threads:[~2000-11-24  0:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-11-23 23:29 beware of dead string constants Bernd Eckenfels
2000-11-23 23:39 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2000-11-24  3:36   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-24  4:15   ` Chris Wedgwood
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-11-26 14:29 Bernd Eckenfels
2000-11-22 18:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2000-11-23 13:06 ` Werner Almesberger
2000-11-21 12:02 Peter Samuelson
2000-11-21 12:13 ` Jakub Jelinek
2000-11-21 12:24   ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-21 20:51   ` J . A . Magallon
2000-11-22  1:14     ` Peter Samuelson
2000-11-22  8:27       ` Urban Widmark

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