10 Jul
2009
10 Jul
'09
10:39 p.m.
Dear Jean-Christophe PLAGNIOL-VILLARD,
In message 20090613145439.GG25406@game.jcrosoft.org you wrote:
i dont get it. the CPP expands into if(0) and unless you have a completely shitty compiler, gcc will do dead code elimination on it resulting in the same binary size.
I've seen to much "shitty version" that does not do it correctly so I prefer ot avoid the problem
There are zillions of places that rely on the compiler optimizing away "if (0) ..." stuff. It is a valid and even recommended C programming technique.
This is definitely no reason to reject a patch.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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