Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2000 18:39:25 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: beware of dead string constants |
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Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > In article <14874.25691.629724.306563@wire.cadcamlab.org> you wrote: > > This is mostly a heads-up to say that in this regard gcc is not ready > > for prime time, so we really can't get away with using if() as an ifdef > > yet, at least not without penalty. > > Humm.. whats the Advantage of this?
Advantage of what?
If you mean preferring 'if ()' over 'ifdef'... Linus. :) And I agree with him: code looks -much- more clean without ifdefs. And the compiler should be smart enough to completely eliminate code inside an 'if (0)' code block.
Jeff
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