Style point: (*pointer).whatever is written a bit more easily as pointer->whatever. That'd make your new patch a good bit more readable.
--Juan
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On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:46:25 -0800, Juan Lang wrote:
Style point: (*pointer).whatever is written a bit more easily as pointer->whatever. That'd make your new patch a good bit more readable.
Are they even equivalent? My impression was that (*pointer).whatever would make a temporary copy on the stack, set it, and then immediately throw away that copy. So it wouldn't actually set it at all.
If there's a finer point of C I missed here then please do enlighten me ...
On January 7, 2005 09:04 am, Mike Hearn wrote:
On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 08:46:25 -0800, Juan Lang wrote:
Style point: (*pointer).whatever is written a bit more easily as pointer->whatever. That'd make your new patch a good bit more readable.
Are they even equivalent? My impression was that (*pointer).whatever would make a temporary copy on the stack, set it, and then immediately throw away that copy. So it wouldn't actually set it at all.
What????
I don't think so.
Not when I tried it 30 seconds ago.
If there's a finer point of C I missed here then please do enlighten me ...
Juan Lang wrote:
Style point: (*pointer).whatever is written a bit more easily as pointer->whatever. That'd make your new patch a good bit more readable.
--Juan
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D'oh. Can't believe that slipped my mind. Thanks.
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