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From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>
To: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
Cc: carlton@kealia.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [commit] Deprecate remaining STREQ uses
Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 19:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9743-Tue25Nov2003211147+0200-eliz@elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3FC39747.2090007@gnu.org> (message from Andrew Cagney on Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:54:15 -0500)

> Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 12:54:15 -0500
> From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> > 
> > Actually, in the case at hand, they would give different results, it
> > turns out!  The definition of STREQ isn't simply strcmp()==0 - there's
> > an optimization (or "optimization", perhaps) there as well.
> 
> You'll now appreciate my paranoia :-)

So does Emacs ;-)

> So, should the transformation be the strictly mechanical inline expansion:
> 
>    STREQ(a,b) =>  (*(a) == *(b) ? !strcmp ((a), (b)) : 0)
> 
> or also include a simplification leading to:
> 
>    STREQ(a,b) => (strcmp ((a), (b)) == 0)

IIRC, we decided long ago that the so-called ``optimization'' in the
former macro definition was a waste of cycles.  So my recommendation
would be to use the latter.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2003-11-25 19:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-11-23 21:08 Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24  5:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 16:41   ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 16:50     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-24 18:02       ` David Carlton
2003-11-24 19:36         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 18:25       ` Kevin Buettner
2003-11-24 20:03         ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-25  0:09           ` Kevin Buettner
2003-11-27 14:30             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-27 17:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01 15:47                 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-01 19:08                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-01 19:17                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-01 19:22                       ` Joel Brobecker
2003-12-01 21:25                       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-01 21:32                         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-12-03  3:47                           ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-03 16:37                             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-01 19:40                     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-04  4:44               ` Kevin Buettner
2003-12-04 15:45                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-04 17:33                   ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-05 16:14                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-12 19:26                     ` Kevin Buettner
2003-12-13  1:01                       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 20:32         ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 23:56           ` Kevin Buettner
2003-11-25  1:33             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-25  6:51               ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-04  4:21               ` Kevin Buettner
2003-11-24 19:33       ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 19:58         ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 21:06           ` Joel Brobecker
2003-11-26 20:54             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-25  6:56           ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 19:36       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 20:54         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-24 22:08           ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 19:24     ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 19:45       ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-25  6:58         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-24 20:06       ` David Carlton
2003-11-25  6:54         ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-25 16:59           ` David Carlton
2003-11-25 17:54             ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-25 17:57               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-11-25 17:59                 ` David Carlton
2003-11-25 18:42                 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-25 19:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-11-25 17:58               ` David Carlton
2003-11-25 18:02               ` Kevin Buettner
2003-11-25 19:14               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2003-12-05 16:26           ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-05 17:56             ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-06 14:09               ` Andrew Cagney
2003-12-06 15:23                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-12-07 15:54                   ` Andrew Cagney
2003-11-24 17:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-03  5:05 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-12 19:49 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2003-12-13 10:18 ` Eli Zaretskii

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