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From: Martin Sebor <msebor@gmail.com>
To: Jason Merrill <jason@redhat.com>,
	gcc-patches List <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: RFA: PATCH to add id_strcmp helper function
Date: Fri, 19 May 2017 03:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9644643-c164-bc33-4818-f2b2e7f1b892@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADzB+2=nUE9Ma58PpzfaC97+TxXd3bBJ3Er_ZeAQjXogfUsEcw@mail.gmail.com>

On 05/18/2017 08:30 PM, Jason Merrill wrote:
> I got tired of writing strcmp (IDENTIFIER_POINTER and decided to wrap
> it in an inline function.  I decided to use "id_strcmp" instead of
> just overloading strcmp, but I don't feel strongly about that choice.
>
> The second patch changes all existing uses of that pattern to use the
> new function.
>
> OK for trunk?

Since all the uses are of the form !id_strcmp(), would taking
a step further and introducing a bool id_equal() be going too
far?

Besides being (arguably) easier to read, it would get around
the question of whether it should be !id_strcmp() or
id_strcmp == 0, or perhaps even 0 == id_strcmp().

Martin

  reply	other threads:[~2017-05-19  3:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-05-19  2:32 Jason Merrill
2017-05-19  3:13 ` Martin Sebor [this message]
2017-05-24  1:45   ` Jason Merrill
2017-06-09 20:07     ` Jason Merrill
2017-06-10  5:54       ` Richard Biener

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