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Message-Id: <20070529161737.a19af5e6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Tue, 29 May 2007 16:17:37 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"young dave" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
Cc:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch -mm 1/1] remove useless tolower in isofs

On Mon, 28 May 2007 03:11:04 +0000
"young dave" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> > And then there's the supercompact form.
> >
> > while (len--) {
> >         hash = partial_name_hash(tolower(*name++), hash);
> > }
> >
> > But I do not like the last one at all. The first one is the best, because
> > it clearly separates the condition and iteration parts of the expression,
> > while STILL being only three lines long. Or two, if you omit the braces.
> > (But you shouldn't.)
> >
> 
> IMO, I like the last one, but I prefer to keep the original author's
> one, I only remove the unnecessary tolower function.
> What do you think about this , Andrew?
> 

Don't care much.  The code as it stands is suitably paranoid about 
buggy implementations of tolower() which evaluate their arg more
than once ;)

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