On Tue, 21 June 2005 00:10:41 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > The attached patch:
> >
> > o Fixes kernel/power/disk.c string declared as 'char *p = "...";' to be
> > declared as 'char p[] = "...";', as pointed by Jeff Garzik.
>
> ? Why was char *p ... wrong? Because you could not do sizeof() later?
Not necessarily wrong, but iirc, "*p" can waste 4 bytes (or 8, for
64-bit platforms). Since this variable isn't static, that's a
non-issue, but I've seen it on some kernel-janitor list anyway.
Jörn
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