Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us> writes:
> Tom Lane wrote:
>> [ shrug... ] The name is not going to change again. I have never cared
>> for the practice of writing strlen("foo") as if it were a compile-time
>> constant.
> I think with gcc strlen("foo") is a compile-time constant.
Portability is exactly the root of the problem. If you are in the habit
of doing this then you get led into unportable behaviors like
char localarray[strlen(foo) + 1];
which no compiler except gcc will take. (We just had to fix exactly
that mistake in someone's patch within the last week or two.)
> What do you prefer?
I use "3" ;-). As long as the size calculation and the filling of the
string are immediately adjacent, the purpose of the code is clear
enough.
regards, tom lane