Re: [patch -mm 1/1] remove useless tolower in isofs

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Tue May 29 2007 - 19:18:01 EST


On Mon, 28 May 2007 03:11:04 +0000
"young dave" <hidave.darkstar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
> > And then there's the supercompact form.
> >
> > while (len--) {
> > hash = partial_name_hash(tolower(*name++), hash);
> > }
> >
> > But I do not like the last one at all. The first one is the best, because
> > it clearly separates the condition and iteration parts of the expression,
> > while STILL being only three lines long. Or two, if you omit the braces.
> > (But you shouldn't.)
> >
>
> IMO, I like the last one, but I prefer to keep the original author's
> one, I only remove the unnecessary tolower function.
> What do you think about this , Andrew?
>

Don't care much. The code as it stands is suitably paranoid about
buggy implementations of tolower() which evaluate their arg more
than once ;)

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