On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:40:39PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote: > On 27 October 2017 at 21:31, SF Markus Elfring > <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > From: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:21:40 +0200 > > > > Add a jump target so that a specific string copy operation is stored > > only once at the end of this function implementation. > > Replace two calls of the function "strncpy" by goto statements. > > > > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software. > > > > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks, applied for next! > What's the advantage of this patch? The new code seems more complicated to me and GCC automatically reuses duplicate constant strings so there is no memory savings. regards, dan capenter -- 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
