On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Christopher Lameter wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Markus Elfring wrote: > > > Avoid an extra function call by using a ternary operator instead of > > a conditional statement for a string literal selection. > > Well. I thought the compiler does that on its own? And the tenary operator > makes the code difficult to read. > Right, and I don't understand the changelog: yes, there's one less function call in the source but functionally there's still a conditional; this isn't even optimizing DEBUG builds.