On Wed, 2014-11-05 at 19:38 -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Wed, 05 Nov 2014 14:51:48 -0800 Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote:

[]
> > > I know that it's considered bad form
> > > to split strings like this, but I consider this one of the exceptions
> > > to the rule.
> > 
> > Why is that?
> > 
> > btw: when the strings fragments are put on the same line,
> > it's nicer to take out the intermediate joining " " bits too.
> > 
> > I'd've probably used 2 seq_puts calls like:
> > 
> >     seq_puts(m, "  Function                               Hit    Time       
> >      Avg             s^2\n");
> >     seq_puts(m, "  --------                               ---    ----       
> >      ---             ---\n");
> > 
> 
> In this case it's just that I hate that big white space followed by
> content.
> 
> Maybe I'll change my mind in the future, but for now, I'd rather just
> leave it as is.

My eyes generally skip over the embedded whitespace.

It's also generally less code space to use a single format string
instead of something like:

        printf("  %-39s%-7s%-16s%-16s%s\n", "Function", "Hit", "Time", "Avg", 
"s^2");


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