>> Is it really so difficult to interpret the suggested construction >> of a single (and relatively small) format string? > > It's not so difficult, so much as it makes things worse. It's easier > the way it originally was. Thanks for your view on this refactoring approach. > It might be interesting to see if the compiler could be taught > to collapse the function calls, How does this wish fit to your previous rejection? > but (a) this isn't performance critical, This can be. > and (b) the number of bytes saved is really tiny. I imagine that the corresponding code and data size reduction could be occasionally useful, couldn't it? > But at least if the compiler was doing the work, it would at least deal with > it everywhere. I would find such an optimisation possibility also nice. Can it become acceptable to achieve a similar effect by the application of scripts for the semantic patch language in the meantime? Regards, Markus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
