Re: beware of dead string constants

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:39:25 -0500

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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Jeff Garzik             |
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