Re: [PATCH 12/21] Use prefixcmp() instead of memcmp() for cleaner code with less magic numbers

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Jun 10, 2007, 08:41 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706100939460.4059@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200706090217.49818.johan@herland.net>

Hi,

On Sat, 9 Jun 2007, Johan Herland wrote:

>
> -	if (memcmp(data, "object ", 7))
> +	if (prefixcmp(data, "object "))

FWIW I think that _these_ changes are actually somewhat worth it. And they should have come _instead_ of moving the order of the memcmp() around (you know which patch that was).

Ciao, Dscho

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