Re: [cc65] Why does sizeof(string) generates data?

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 10:48:17PM +0100, Groepaz wrote:
> yeah well, technically you are correct - however i would have never thought
> that it is also true in a situation as in the example given before, giving a
> hint or two wouldnt hurt :)

The problem is that too many details like this one make the documentation
unreadble, because the important things are hidden within a pile of stuff that
is of absolutely no interested for 99.9% of all users. 

Ok, make that 99.5%, because 99.9% would need at least 1000 users of which 999
aren't interested. And I doubt there are that many. And, since we're talking
about users reading the docs, there are probably even less:-)

Back to the problem: --local-strings is a rarely used option. Combine that
with the rare use of "sizeof (<string literal>)", and remember that nothing
bad happens, it's just a few bytes wasted. I doubt that this special scenario
is worth a whole paragraph in the docs.

Regards


        Uz


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Ullrich von Bassewitz                                  uz@musoftware.de
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