[Bug-indent] Re: #206785: Fixed: Bug#206785: indent segfaults on the attached file

[Santiago Vila]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

> Mine is a little more efficient. In my version, the function call is only made
> if the potential error condition occurs. In your version, the function call
> happens every time. On CPUs like i386, the function call overhead is
> significantly higher than the comparison anyway, so add the extra check in
> line is a worthwhile addition in a tight inner loop like this one.

Ok, I agree that the extra check might be more "efficient", but for
the Debian package I'm only interested in fixing the bug, so I've
applied the patch in its simple form, if only to respect the author's
style, since that's how it's done everywhere in indent.c.