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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 13:02:32 -0500
From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <devon.odell@gmail.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] const if false
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2007/1/16, ron minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>:
> it's on something like this:
>
> if (A != 0 && keylen != A) {
> }
>
>
> gets an error 'const if false'
>
> A is defined to zero. So, what do I care if 'const if false'. I did
> not write this code ... but it's what they want, evidently.

I guess because the first part of the if is always false, the if is
useless and it is telling you to fix `your' code.

--dho

> ron
>