"Shawn O. Pearce" <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> For just these 5 values it is likely more effective to just use
>> a conditional statement (less stack requested, less likely
>> some stupid compiler tries to optimize it wrongly).
>> And just as readable.
>>
>> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
>> index 92452eb..1cf5985 100644
>> --- a/dir.c
>> +++ b/dir.c
>> @@ -680,17 +680,12 @@ static int cmp_name(const void *p1, const void *p2)
>> */
>> static int simple_length(const char *match)
>> {
>> - const char special[256] = {
>> - [0] = 1, ['?'] = 1,
>> - ['\\'] = 1, ['*'] = 1,
>> - ['['] = 1
>> - };
>> int len = -1;
>>
>> for (;;) {
>> unsigned char c = *match++;
>> len++;
>> - if (special[c])
>> + if (!c || '?' == c || '\\' == c || '*' == c || '[' == c)
>
> I am reminded of a year old thread with my patch to this:
>
> http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/4/15/243541
>
> The patch never applied. I wonder why. Was it just Dscho's comment?
I think it was an unanswered question about stealing one bit from
ctype.c::sane_ctype[] that kept the discussion in limbo.
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