Subject: Re: [PATCH] dir.c: avoid c99 array initialization

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 13:16:57 -0700

Alex Riesen <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> For just these 5 values it is likely more effective to just use
> a conditional statement (less stack requested, less likely
> some stupid compiler tries to optimize it wrongly).
> And just as readable.
> 
> diff --git a/dir.c b/dir.c
> index 92452eb..1cf5985 100644
> --- a/dir.c
> +++ b/dir.c
> @@ -680,17 +680,12 @@ static int cmp_name(const void *p1, const void *p2)
>   */
>  static int simple_length(const char *match)
>  {
> -	const char special[256] = {
> -		[0] = 1, ['?'] = 1,
> -		['\\'] = 1, ['*'] = 1,
> -		['['] = 1
> -	};
>  	int len = -1;
> 
>  	for (;;) {
>  		unsigned char c = *match++;
>  		len++;
> -		if (special[c])
> +		if (!c || '?' == c || '\\' == c || '*' == c || '[' == c)

I am reminded of a year old thread with my patch to this:

  http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/git/2007/4/15/243541

The patch never applied.  I wonder why.  Was it just Dscho's comment?

-- 
Shawn.