From: "Mark Kettenis" <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: "Joel Brobecker" <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: "Markus Deuling" <deuling@de.ibm.com>,
"GDB Patches" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFA] gdbserver/server.c: Replace 2x strlen() by a variable
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2006 12:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25093.192.87.1.22.1166705194.squirrel@webmail.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061221110904.GG3640@adacore.com>
> > ChangeLog:
> >
> > * server.c (handle_general_set): New variable len instead
> > of using strlen two times.
>
> Actually, since the same string is duplicated a couple of times,
> I would also suggest declaring a constant string "QPassSignals:"
> and use the constant instead of risking a typo... How about:
>
> const char str[] = "QPassSignals:";
>
> and then use "sizeof (str) - 1". Is that bad coding style? Otherwise,
> you can declare your sale constant:
>
> const int len = strlen (str);
>
> I am not reviewer, so these are just suggestions, not a request (JIC).
I'm pretty sure GCC will optimize away the strlen("QPassSignals:") anyway,
so we really shouldn't try to obfuscate the code just to make it a bit
faster. So if optimization was the Markus' argument for making this
change I object to this change.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-12-21 12:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-12-21 7:45 Markus Deuling
2006-12-21 11:08 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-12-21 11:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2006-12-21 12:47 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-12-21 13:04 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-12-26 15:35 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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