Re: sindex() and strstr() //Re: To Paul D. Smith: "make -j" as a grea ttool for SMP and cluster parallelization

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Markus Mauhart <address@hidden> writes:

  mm> OTOH the whole patch is redundant once Paul follows your previous
  mm> suggestion to removes sindex() and switches to strstr().
  mm> Allthough sindex() has a more sophisticated semantic than strstr()
  mm> (sindex() can deal with strings w/o term zero), that case is never
  mm> used in make381beta1: either blen/slen are compile time constants
  mm> > 0 equal to strlen(string litteral), or they are values that have
  mm> been just computed via strlen(big/small).

I'm pretty sure there _ARE_ places in make which invoke sindex() with
length values which are less than EOS; in fact I think I even thought
I'd provided an example but I can't find it at the moment.  I'd have to
look at it again to be sure though.

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