Re: Pango Performance (was: Re: --gtk-unbuffered)

[Mark Mielke <mark mark mielke cc>]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 08:12:20AM +0100, Oskar Liljeblad wrote:
> On Thursday, March 01, 2001 at 15:53, jrb redhat com wrote:
> > >  Just curious: Whats the rationale for this "strange way to code"?
> > It catches the '=' vs '==' errors.  For instance:
> In my experience, you don't make this mistake often enough for
> it to be a problem. At least not if you're experienced with C...
> I thought the main point in good code was readability, not
> safeness...

Not to mention the fact that if you were smart enough to catch yourself
putting "1 == has_glyph" instead of "has_glyph == 1", you likely aren't
forgetting to use "==" (instead of "=").

As long as the extra braces aren't used, GCC catches this. (I think
somebody else pointed this out as well)

-Wall is your friend.

mark

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