[PATCH] ldso - minor changes, saving some bytes
Rob Landley
rob at landley.net
Sun Jan 11 06:34:49 UTC 2009
On Saturday 10 January 2009 11:55:55 olsajiri at gmail.com wrote:
> _dl_read(infile, header, _dl_pagesize);
> epnt = (ElfW(Ehdr) *) (intptr_t) header;
> - if (epnt->e_ident[0] != 0x7f ||
> - epnt->e_ident[1] != 'E' ||
> - epnt->e_ident[2] != 'L' ||
> - epnt->e_ident[3] != 'F')
> + if (epnt->e_ident[EI_MAG0] != ELFMAG0 ||
> + epnt->e_ident[EI_MAG1] != ELFMAG1 ||
> + epnt->e_ident[EI_MAG2] != ELFMAG2 ||
> + epnt->e_ident[EI_MAG3] != ELFMAG3)
Why? The values are never going to change (it would break compatability with
the entire world), and using the constants you can see what they actually are
and where they are.
Using macros here only serves to obscure the code to a casual reader.
Rob
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