linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: One function call less in verify_redzone

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Message-ID: <0100016bc3579800-ee6cd00b-6f59-4d86-be0c-f63e2b137d18-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Date:   Fri, 5 Jul 2019 18:13:46 +0000
From:   Christopher Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
To:     Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@....de>
cc:     linux-mm@...ck.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/slab: One function call less in
 verify_redzone_free()

On Fri, 5 Jul 2019, Markus Elfring wrote:

> Avoid an extra function call by using a ternary operator instead of
> a conditional statement for a string literal selection.

Well. I thought the compiler does that on its own? And the tenary operator
makes the code difficult to read.