On Thu, 02 May 2013, Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi> wrote:
> On Thu, May 02 2013, Vladimir Marek <Vladimir.Marek@Oracle.COM> wrote:
>
>>> >      int prefix_len = strlen (prefix);
>>> > -    const char *term = NULL;
>>> > +    std::string term;
>>> >      char *value;
>>> >  
>>> >      i.skip_to (prefix);
>>> >  
>>> > -    if (i != end)
>>> > -	term = (*i).c_str ();
>>> > +    if (i == end)
>>> > +	return NULL;
>>> >  
>>> > -    if (!term || strncmp (term, prefix, prefix_len))
>>> > +    term = *i;
>>> 
>>> ... hmm, a raii(?) solution above would be std::string term = *i;
>>
>> I'm not sure what's raii (I'm not very good at c++ ...), but I guess you
>> mean to use 'std::string term = *i;' to avoid copy constructor. That
>> surely is a good idea. Let me rework the patch!
>
> I am not that smart (i.e. avoid copy constructor it might be, I don't
> know...) I am lousy in c++. I attempter to mean
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_Acquisition_Is_Initialization
> in a sense that when variable is introduced it is also initialized
> to useful value (so that no-one accidentally add code between introduction
> and initialization). 
>  
> Anyway, if you rework the patch then we can vote which version to
> apply (yeah, sure >;)

I already dropped needs-review from the latest version [1]. I'm curious
about patches 2-24, let's not stall here. ;)

Jani.


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