Re: Make CVS HEAD version build out of the box

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 09:26:46 +0800
> From: "Yongwei Wu" <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Just that I never found the "= '\0'" line here being run :-(, even
> when I have a rule like "test.exe: BUG/".  So the copying looks a
> waste of CPU time.

Well, memcpy is very fast, and at least with GCC, it's inlined.

> Though I do not believe it can really hurt the performance

I think it's negligible, since Make's performance is driven by other,
much slower, factors.