Re: [PATCH] ACPI: replace strlen("string") with sizeof("string") -1

[Ian Campbell]

On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 21:39 -0400, Len Brown wrote:
> ...both give the number of chars in the string
> without the '\0', as strncmp() wants,
> but sizeof() is compile-time.

I thought gcc optimised strlen("string literal") into a compile time
constant too. It does in a little userspace test I just wrote, but I
didn't look at its behaviour with the kernel's strlen.

Ian.

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