if(constant) instead of #if
Henry Spencer
henry at utzoo.uucp
Sat Jul 30 04:14:17 AEST 1988
In article <19730 at cornell.UUCP> blandy at cs.cornell.edu (Jim Blandy) writes:
>An alternative to consider: it's a simple task for a compiler to
>recognize that the condition for an if ( ) statement is a constant,
>use this knowledge in guessing which statements are unreachable, and
>drop unreachable code...
This does not work for declarations, unfortunately.
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