>> … It's just that two out of three error >> messages happened to be the same and Markus wants to save a bit of >> memory by using the same string. The memory savings is not so big that >> it's worth making the code less readable. > > I agree with Dan. > > It doesn't save any real memory either as the compiler/linker > reuses the repeated string. It might depend on passing appropriate parameters. > It might, depending on the compiler, save a few bytes of > object code as the compiler may not optimize the repeated > call away though. I am trying to show corresponding change possibilities. > But a good compiler could do that too. Do you prefer to delegate the proposed software refactoring only to a corresponding optimiser? 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
