From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Thiago Farina <tfransosi@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 11:33:07 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4DB86163.2070201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1303926576.18763.75.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On 04/27/2011 10:49 AM, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 16:45 -0300, Thiago Farina wrote:
>> This macro is arguably more readable than its variants:
>> - !strcmp(a, b)
>> - strcmp(a, b) == 0
>
> Actually, this was proposed way back in 2002 my Rusty and I did not see
> anyone arguing against it. I wonder why it never was incorporated back
> then?
>
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=103284339813100&w=2
>
> [ added Cc's of some of those that replied to this thread ]
>
Because !strcmp() is idiomatic C.
This is the same kind of stupidity as
#define BEGIN {
#define END }
It doesn't matter if it is more readable *to you*... learn the language,
please.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-04-27 18:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-04-26 18:49 Thiago Farina
2011-04-26 19:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 19:05 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-26 19:17 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 19:20 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-26 19:21 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-26 19:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 19:45 ` Joe Perches
2011-04-26 19:47 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-26 19:58 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 20:06 ` Joe Perches
2011-04-27 8:29 ` Miguel Ojeda
2011-04-27 8:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-04-27 8:49 ` Miguel Ojeda
2011-04-27 9:04 ` Pavel Vasilyev
2011-04-26 20:00 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 19:25 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-26 19:45 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-26 19:54 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-27 17:49 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 18:33 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2011-04-27 18:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-27 19:16 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 19:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 19:38 ` Pekka Enberg
2011-04-27 20:04 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 20:24 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-04-27 19:01 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 23:38 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-28 3:30 ` Rusty Russell
2011-04-26 20:27 ` Davidlohr Bueso
2011-04-26 20:33 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-27 0:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-27 1:32 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 6:47 ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-04-27 8:47 ` gmack
2011-04-27 14:52 ` Ted Ts'o
2011-04-27 16:04 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2011-04-27 16:26 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 8:35 ` Mike Frysinger
2011-04-27 16:46 ` Al Viro
2011-04-27 17:07 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 21:46 ` Al Viro
2011-04-27 22:17 ` Thiago Farina
2011-04-27 22:38 ` Pavel Vasilyev
2011-04-27 22:45 ` Al Viro
2011-04-28 0:05 ` Steven Rostedt
2011-04-27 22:21 ` Thiago Farina
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