Re: [PATCH 2/2] Unify usage strings declaration

[Matthias Urlichs]

Hi, Junio C Hamano wrote:

 I do not have preference either way, and I've already merged
 them, but why char[] not char*?

A char* is a variable which points to the char[].
That's four (or eight) bytes we don't need. ;-)

C conflates the two concepts somewhat, which is one of the reasons
optimizing compiled C is somewhat more challenging than, say, FORTRAN.

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Re: [PATCH 2/2] Unify usage strings declaration

[Junio C Hamano]

Petr Baudis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

 All usage strings are now declared as static const char [].

I do not have preference either way, and I've already merged
them, but why char[] not char*?



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