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Date:      Sun, 10 Oct 2010 10:54:37 +0200
From:      Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org>
To:        "Andrey V. Elsukov" <ae@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r213662 - in head: sbin/geom/class/concat sbin/geom/class/eli sbin/geom/class/journal sbin/geom/class/mirror sbin/geom/class/part sbin/geom/class/raid3 sbin/geom/class/shsec sbin/geom/c...
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On 9 October 2010 22:20, Andrey V. Elsukov <ae@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Author: ae
> Date: Sat Oct =C2=A09 20:20:27 2010
> New Revision: 213662
> URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/213662
>
> Log:
> =C2=A0Replace strlen(_PATH_DEV) with sizeof(_PATH_DEV) - 1.

Um, this looks like a pointless change and for the worse; Even at -O1
the compiler will reduce strlen(constant) to just its result and for
code like printf("%d\n", sizeof("1234567")) produce code like:

	movl	$7, %esi
	movl	$.LC0, %edi
	movl	$0, %eax
	call	printf

And (though tastes differ) I think the sizeof() variant is less
readable. The strlen(_PATH_something) idiom is common in other parts
of the kernel outside GEOM.

In short - why was this done?



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