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Re: tiny string fixes [patches]


From: Jim Meyering
Subject: Re: tiny string fixes [patches]
Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 10:21:12 +0200

Micah Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> Here's what the ISO C standard says about the conditional operator:
>
> «The first operand is evaluated; there is a sequence point after its
...

?!?
Are you worried that I don't know the semantics of some C operator?

> Of course, it's still possible that the resulting code will contain two
> distinct places where gettext is called; but in any case there will be
> only one actual call.

My measure of the number of calls (for this purpose) is not the count
of run-time executions, but rather is more code-size related.  I wanted
to retain the single-point-of-call property present in the original code.




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