Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 29 Aug 2002 17:48:45 +0200 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [TRIVIAL] strlen("literal string") -> (sizeof("literal string")-1) |
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On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 09:39:14AM -0600, Thunder from the hill wrote:
> > #define strlen(x) \ > > (__builtin_constant_p(x) && sizeof(x) != sizeof(char *) > > ? (sizeof(x) - 1) : __strlen(x)) > > I must say that doesn't make the code any cleaner, which leads to it being > not as clean as Keith suggested. It was a code cleanup, not a code messup.
Sure the macro is fugly, but the code that uses it becomes cleaner which was the whole point here.
Dave
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