From: Andrea Corallo <acorallo@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Hard-to-understand line in xfaces.c
Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 10:35:18 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yp1ttghze8p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADwFkmkA-FyVi3o9zN6Z=A4WEgUVRGQcEGauhaGoLth=6xoRLA@mail.gmail.com> (Stefan Kangas's message of "Mon, 22 Jul 2024 07:20:10 -0700")
Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> writes:
> Could someone explain this line in xfaces.c:7184?
>
> len -= 0 < len && name[len - 1] == '\n';
>
> It seems rather mysterious to me; for example, does it actually do
> anything?
If len is greater than zero and name[len - 1] is '\n' then is decreasing
len by one. Only form the line I don't have the context of why is doing
that.
Andrea
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-07-22 14:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-07-22 14:20 Hard-to-understand line in xfaces.c Stefan Kangas
2024-07-22 14:35 ` Andrea Corallo [this message]
2024-07-22 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-07-22 15:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2024-07-22 14:38 ` Pip Cet
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