<div dir="ltr">Honestly, if we just use something like that macro - we could define it in-situ for each table separately. Then there's less risk of any interesting cases like large buffers, embedded nulls, etc. (it's limited in scope and obvious at the use what the limitations of the macro are, etc)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:55 AM Zachary Turner <<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com">zturner@google.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_msg">char buffer[100];</div>And it also allows LIT(buffer) to compile, whereas the UDL doesn't.</div><br class="gmail_msg"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_msg"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_msg">On Tue, Nov 29, 2016 at 9:54 AM Mehdi Amini <<a href="mailto:mehdi.amini@apple.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">mehdi.amini@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg"></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote gmail_msg" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
> On Nov 29, 2016, at 9:52 AM, Malcolm Parsons <<a href="mailto:malcolm.parsons@gmail.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">malcolm.parsons@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> On 29 November 2016 at 17:38, Zachary Turner <<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">zturner@google.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
>> I see, but I looked over your proposed implementation from earlier in the<br class="gmail_msg">
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> That's a different suggestion.<br class="gmail_msg">
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>> #define LIT(x) x_string_ref_literal<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Why bother with the UDL?<br class="gmail_msg">
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There is subtlety though, it changes the result for: LIT(“hello\0world”).<br class="gmail_msg">
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