Re: beware of dead string constants

[Peter Samuelson]

[Jeff Garzik]
> 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.

Plus the advantage/disadvantage of making the compiler parse almost
everything, which should eliminate syntax errors, variable name
misspellings, etc in little-used config options.  The disadvantage is
that compilation speed goes down.

Peter