Init Patch for review and evaluation
Eugene Bordenkircher
eugebo at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 02:04:12 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-12-27 at 13:20 -0500, Paul Fox wrote:
> > > #endif
> > > in the future, please try to utilize the first form
> > > -mike
> >
> > Thanks for the heads up. I'll make sure to do this in the future. I'm
> > assuming I probably should have used CONFIG_... instead of ENABLE...
> > then. I intended it to be a compile time feature to avoid bloat since
> > most people will not need the feature.
>
> no -- the point is that
> if (ENABLE_XXX)
> is the same as
> if (0)
> or
> if (1)
>
> and the optimizer will completely eliminate the code in the first
> case, so the effect is the same as "#if CONFIG_XXX". but since
> the code is "visible" to the compiler, compilation errors
> introduced by changes elsewhere (usually in header files) will be
> caught more quickly.
>
> paul
> =---------------------
> paul fox, pgf at brightstareng.com
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Neat idea. The thought never occurred to me. I like it though.
Thanks for the explanation.
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