From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 22:08:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Change "refs/" references to symbolic constants
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0702192307240.14047@wbgn013.biozentrum.uni-wuerzburg.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vlkit7vy5.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi,

On Mon, 19 Feb 2007, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> These repeated strncmp(p, X, STRLEN_X) almost makes me wonder if we want 
> to introduce:
> 
> 	inline int prefixcmp(a, b)
>         {
>         	return (strncmp(a, b, strlen(b));
>         }
> 
> with clever preprocessor optimization to have compiler do strlen() when 
> b is a string literal.

I am in favour of that. BTW I remember that Han-Wen suggested this some 
time ago, too.

Ciao,
Dscho