[master] 5e5b442f5 VSLb() is not the choice for a single string argument

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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Dridi Boukelmoune writes:
> > > Yes it should. But why not avoid an snprintf if we can?
> >
> > +0
> >
> > At least on FreeBSD it is surprisingly cheap.  In the normal
> > case, for instance printf("%s", ...) it is free, because the
> > compiler turns it into a fputs() instead.
>
> But that kind of optimization wouldn't happen for VSLb("%s") calls?
> That sounds like a very long shot.

I'd hope not :-)

But "%s" is still surprisingly cheap, even when the compiler does
not remove it.

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