Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ateng!chip
From: chip@ateng.ateng.com (Chip Salzenberg)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: hardcoded constants
Message-ID: <1988Dec21.133910.23182@ateng.ateng.com>
Date: 21 Dec 88 18:39:10 GMT
References: <1988Dec8.173158.11839@utzoo.uucp> <846@starfish.Convergent.COM> <9134@smoke.BRL.MIL> <1988Dec13.172306.16195@utzoo.uucp> <5146@bsu-cs.UUCP> <1988Dec15.190331.2986@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: A T Engineering, Tampa, FL
Lines: 16

According to henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer):
>Trouble is, often it's almost impossible to devise a meaningful name.
>I'm not talking about hard-coding things like choice of control characters,
>but about things like (in a function to concatenate two strings with a
>'/' in between):
>
>	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+strlen(b)+2);	/* 2 for '/' '\0' */

Not hard:

	foo = malloc(strlen(a)+sizeof("/")+strlen(b));

-- 
Chip Salzenberg             <chip@ateng.com> or <uunet!ateng!chip>
A T Engineering             Me?  Speak for my company?  Surely you jest!
	  "It's no good.  They're tapping the lines."