Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] vsprintf: factorize "(null)" string

From: Rusty Russell
Date: Sun Nov 08 2009 - 22:28:13 EST


On Sun, 8 Nov 2009 01:46:09 am you wrote:
> Change "<NULL>" to "(null)" and make it a static const char[] hoping that
> the compiler will make null_str a label to a read-only area containing it.

(Trimmed the 79 recipients of the original).

Hi Andre,

Consistently using <NULL> or (null) makes sense. But I'm really missing your argument: is there some reason why normal string merging won't work?

Confused,
Rusty.
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