By definition, an inlined function is still not compile-time. It's just
runtime that's had its cost of calling and returning removed at the
expense of the code being inlined, possibly multiple times.
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On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Jerry Feldman wrote:
=>What about optimizing compilers that generate inline functions?
=>I can't answer that specifically, but there are some optimizations that can
=>really get wild, especially in C++.
=>"Steven W. Orr" wrote:
=>> I beg to heartily differ. *No* C compiler will evaluate a call to strlen
=>> at compile time, even if the string is compiletime evaluatable.
=>>
=>> The best you can hope to do with a compile-time constant is to use sizeof
=>> -1 as in
=>>
=>> #define MYSTR "MyString"
=>>
=>> if ( (sizeof MYSTR) - 1 ) == strlen ( target ) ) ...
=>>
=>> The strlen call is *definitely* a run-time call. The best you can hope to
=>> get (e.g., gcc) is that is will be transformed into an inline call.
=>>
=>> --
=>> -Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
=>> -Stranger things have happened but none stranger than this. Steven W. Orr-
=>> Does your driver's license say Organ Donor?Black holes are where God \
=>> -------divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all individuals!---------
=>>
=>> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Bill Freeman wrote:
=>>
=>> =>Steven Orr writes:
=>> =>
=>> =>> Hold on there Buffalo Bob! There is no big difference between a strlen an
=>> d
=>> =>> a strcmp.
=>> =>
=>> =>Actually, there usually is. Most C compilers (possibly even the pre-
=>> =>processor) evaluate strlen of a constant string at compile time.
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