Re: beware of dead string constants

Chris Wedgwood (cw@f00f.org)
Fri, 24 Nov 2000 17:15:11 +1300


On Thu, Nov 23, 2000 at 06:39:25PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:

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.

Not only that; we should move to code where the compiler engine can
sanitize the code; the preprocessor alternative is obviously more
limited here.

The same can also be said for some of the many macro's that are
#defined; some would surely be better as inline functions is we could
ensure they would always be in-lined.

--cw
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