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SubjectRe: beware of dead string constants
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[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
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