Re: [PATCH] dir.c: avoid c99 array initialization

> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> For just these 5 values it is likely more effective to just use
>> a conditional statement (less stack requested, less likely
>> some stupid compiler tries to optimize it wrongly).
>> And just as readable.
>>
>> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
>> index 92452eb..1cf5985 100644
>> --- a/dir.c
>> +++ b/dir.c
>> @@ -680,17 +680,12 @@ static int cmp_name(const void *p1, const void *p2)
>>   */
>>  static int simple_length(const char *match)
>>  {
>> -     const char special[256] = {
>> -             [0] = 1, ['?'] = 1,
>> -             ['\\'] = 1, ['*'] = 1,
>> -             ['['] = 1
>> -     };
>>       int len = -1;
>>
>>       for (;;) {
>>               unsigned char c = *match++;
>>               len++;
>> -             if (special[c])
>> +             if (!c || '?' == c || '\\' == c || '*' == c || '[' == c)
>
> I am reminded of a year old thread with my patch to this:
>
>  http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/4/15/243541
>
> The patch never applied.  I wonder why.  Was it just Dscho's comment?
>