Re: [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Feb 19, 2007, 20:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20070219205647.GB27722@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <m3fy91q3bq.fsf@maximus.localdomain>

Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:

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> Bill Lear <rael@zopyra.com> writes:
> 
> > Would this be less error-prone, and just as efficient?:
> >
> > #define PATH_REMOTES "remotes/"
> > #define LIT_STRLEN(S) ((sizeof(S) / sizeof(S[0])) -1)
> > #define STRLEN_PATH_REMOTES LIT_STRLEN(PATH_REMOTES)
> 
> sizeof(char) is always 1.

Except when someone does something silly, like say:

	#define char double

:-)

-- 
Shawn.

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