On 12/23/2009 06:14 PM, Christopher Michael wrote:
> On 12/23/2009 06:01 PM, Vincent Torri wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 23 Dec 2009, Enlightenment SVN wrote:
>>
>>> Log:
>>>    When using snprintf or fgets, etc, do not use PATH_MAX directly as the 
>>> size
>>>    of the variable...use sizeof() compiler directive (lots of these).
>>
>> that's something i don't understand.
>>
>> char buf[PATH_MAX] is an array of size PATH_MAX in bytes
>> and sizeof(buf) returns the size of buf in bytes, which is also PATH_MAX
>>
>> so what is the interest of using sizeof() instead of PATH_MAX ?
>>
>> Vincent
>
> A little while ago I had changed snprintf's in several spots todo just
> that...PATH_MAX rather than sizeof()...raster suggested against it and
> had a valid reason (can't remember it now, but if you grep the mailing
> list archives I am sure you will find the discussion)
>
> dh
>
Also, doing sizeof() is a compiler directive so does not incur any 
performance hits...plus it matches the rest of EFL.

dh

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