On Thursday, August 25, 2011 15:50:57 Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:51 AM, Mike Frysinger <vap...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> > i feel like some (many?) #ifdef's in the tree could be done without
> > ifdefs (by relying on gcc's DCE) thus improving overall code quality
> 
> What's DCE?

dead code elimination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_code_elimination

if we let the optimizer do it instead of the preprocessor, we get better code 
coverage in the face of different config settings.
-mike

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