Re: $(foo) vs $(call foo)

[Stephan Beal]

On Wednesday 27 June 2007, John Graham-Cumming wrote:
> There's a slight performance penalty for doing $(call my-macro)
> instead of $(my-macro), but it's very small.
>
> If you like to walk on the wild side then there is another
> difference, but I'm warning you that this difference is only for
> people who are doing extreme things with GNU Make.

http://wanderinghorse.net/computing/make/

:)

> In this article http://www.cmcrossroads.com/content/view/6529/120/ I
> talk about the fact that when you do $(call foo) the recursion
...
> I was making my GNU Make Debugger project for reason discussed in the
> article above.

Wow!!! That's gonna keep me busy for a while! i'll add a link to that in 
the make book (see above link).

> Again, that's only for people who like to play with fire.

/me gets out his matches.

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----- stephan beal
http://www.wanderinghorse.net

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