From: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 06:03:35 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Unify usage strings declaration
Message-ID: <pan.2005.07.30.06.03.34.432362@smurf.noris.de>
In-Reply-To: <7vfytx82m3.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> I do not have preference either way, and I've already merged
> them, but why char[] not char*?

A char* is a variable which points to the char[].
That's four (or eight) bytes we don't need. ;-)

C conflates the two concepts somewhat, which is one of the reasons
optimizing compiled C is somewhat more challenging than, say, FORTRAN.

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