Mike Gerdts wrote:
> On 3/14/07, Garrett D'Amore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> One potential concern. I know of certain bits of code where strings
>> like "$Id: some text$" are "edited" in place to form version numbers
>> from $Id$ and similar strings.
>>
>> The places I can think of actually occur in kernel code!
>
> At least in the RCS/CVS world those values are filled in at checkout
> from the source repository. I would be quite surprised to find any
> meaningful use of expanding those at runtime rather than before a
> build even starts. The compiler can and should treat them as static
> strings because they are not altered at runtime.
The problem isn't doing keyword expansion, but "beautifying" the strings
for use in cmn_err() and modinfo output. (In this case, it largely
amounts to stripping off the trailing "$".
-- Garrett
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