Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] vsprintf: factorize "(null)" string

["André Goddard Rosa" <andre.goddard@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 1:37 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:
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> Stripping the humongous Cc list for sanity.
>
>
> On Saturday 2009-11-07 16:16, André Goddard Rosa wrote:
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>>Change "<NULL>" to "(null)" and make it a static const char[] hoping that
>>the compiler will make null_str a label to a read-only area containing it.
>
> Hoping? Nah, thanks.

:) That's just because I don't always trust gcc blindly. :)

>>See:
>>http://udrepper.livejournal.com/13851.html
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> Ulrich's example already _has_ a variable that is then changed from
> const char * to const char[]. Of course doing that will save you the
> extra pointer.
> But vsprintf.c on the other hand did not have that extra variable to
> begin with!

Correct, of course! Most relevant reference is the first one:
http://people.redhat.com/drepper/dsohowto.pdf part 2.4.2

The others are just related/akin to the topic; interesting nevertheless.

> But it is ok nevertheless, and the unification of <NULL> vs
> (null) is worthwhile.

Thanks,
André