Re: CVS commit: src/usr.bin/stat

[nia <nia%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Fri, May 16, 2025 at 07:05:30PM +0700, Robert Elz wrote:
> How about we make it
> 	&"lstat"[usestat]
> then?
> 
> Or even
> 	&usestat["lstat"]
> ?
> 
> They all mean the same thing, but those might almost be considered obfuscated.
> The first sounds as if it is what the clang warning was saying should be used
> to avoid producing that warning.
> 
> They all avoid the code needing to do 2 jumps in at least some cases
> (or one in all), and having two strings (though a good compiler might
> avoid that).

I don't like the idea of micro-optimizing an error path.