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In article <1990Nov21.131206.2634@sisd.kodak.com> jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed Hanway) writes:
>GIAMPAL@auvm.auvm.edu writes:
>>In article <1990Nov19.130657.19380@sisd.kodak.com>, jeh@sisd.kodak.com (Ed
>>Hanway) says:
>>>#define SAY(s)  Write(backstdout, s, strlen(s))
>>#define MSG(s) { char *s; Write(Output(), s, strlen(s)); }
>>This way you only get one copy of the string constant, and you get a nice
>>function.
>I guess you really mean
>#define MSG(s)	{ char *tmp = s; Write(whatever, tmp, strlen(tmp)); }
>which is fine, but my version was posted as an example of when a builtin
>version of strlen() came in handy.  In Lattice (now SAS) C, strlen("constant")
>is evaluated at compile time, so, using my version, SAY("foo") would
>compile as Write(backstdout, "foo", 3).
Our compiler (for Unix, not for my Amiga) allows 'sizeof("constant")'
which is eliminated at compile time. This obviously doesn't work for dynamic
strings.
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