Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Thu, 23 Nov 2000 21:36:22 -0600 | Subject | Re: beware of dead string constants | From | Peter Samuelson <> |
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[Jeff Garzik] > 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.
Plus the advantage/disadvantage of making the compiler parse almost everything, which should eliminate syntax errors, variable name misspellings, etc in little-used config options. The disadvantage is that compilation speed goes down.
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