linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

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Date:	Wed, 27 Apr 2011 19:38:00 -0400
From:	Ted Ts'o <tytso@....edu>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
	Thiago Farina <tfransosi@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux/string.h: Introduce streq macro.

On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 11:33:07AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> 
> Because !strcmp() is idiomatic C.
> 
> This is the same kind of stupidity as
> 
> #define BEGIN {
> #define END   }
> 
> It doesn't matter if it is more readable *to you*... learn the language,
> please.

Interesting bit of trivia:  This sort of nonsense[1] is what inspired
the the International Obfuscated C Code Contest[2].  :-)

[1] http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=V7/usr/src/cmd/sh/mac.h
[2] http://www.ioccc.org/faq.html

						- Ted
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