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From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] shadow: Implement putspent
Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 01:37:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131108003707.GE1685@port70.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1383863701.11028.154.camel@eris.loria.fr>

* Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@inria.fr> [2013-11-07 23:35:01 +0100]:
> The second variant isn't a cas?? but a conversion and it just checks if
> S is assignment compatible with `char const*`. A completely type safe
> variant then would be
> 
> #define STR(S) ((S) ? (char const*){ (S) } : (char const[]){ 0 })
> 
> which wouldn't imply any conversion. (And which a compiler *may*
> realize by using a static object for the empty string.)

yes but we are talking about a translation unit that
implements a single function with a single fprintf call

fprintf does not modify its arguments so any hackery
around the const qualifier is just clutter


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-08  0:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-05  7:47 [PATCH] " Michael Forney
2013-11-05 19:24 ` Rich Felker
2013-11-05 22:30   ` [PATCH v2] " Michael Forney
2013-11-05 23:31     ` Rich Felker
2013-11-06 13:20       ` Jens Gustedt
2013-11-06 16:36         ` Rich Felker
2013-11-07 22:35           ` Jens Gustedt
2013-11-08  0:37             ` Szabolcs Nagy [this message]
2013-11-24  6:10       ` [PATCH v3] " Michael Forney

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