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dillon@overload.Berkeley.CA.US (Matthew Dillon) writes:
>    Uh, I NEVER use strlen() on a string constant.  That's the most
>    ridiculous thing I've ever heard of in my life!
>
>    I use (sizeof("string-constant") - 1).  And, if you are worried about
>    things looking 'neat', simply write a little preprocessor macro to do
>    it.

I'd never use strlen("constant") either, unless I knew that it was
evaluated at compile time. I have used (albeit in a toy program):

#define SAY(s)	Write(backstdout, s, strlen(s))

which works for both SAY("const") and SAY(var).

>                                   ... Of course, there are many, many
>    optimizations that *do* do major good things, but a small plethora of
>    'built in' functions is not one of them.  Really a huge waste of time;
>    As far as I can, lattice would have spent their time better on other
>    optimizations.

I tend to agree that builtin functions _by themselves_ are not much good,
but in combination with a good optimizer I think that they are worthwhile,
at the very least because arguments wouldn't need to be stuffed into
specific registers for the function call.
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