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Date: Fri, 8 Nov 2013 01:37:07 +0100
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] shadow: Implement putspent
* Jens Gustedt <jens.gustedt@...ia.fr> [2013-11-07 23:35:01 +0100]:
> The second variant isn't a cas?? but a conversion and it just checks if
> S is assignment compatible with `char const*`. A completely type safe
> variant then would be
>
> #define STR(S) ((S) ? (char const*){ (S) } : (char const[]){ 0 })
>
> which wouldn't imply any conversion. (And which a compiler *may*
> realize by using a static object for the empty string.)
yes but we are talking about a translation unit that
implements a single function with a single fprintf call
fprintf does not modify its arguments so any hackery
around the const qualifier is just clutter
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