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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>,
	       Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce skip_to_char and use it
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <56A8A855.8050208@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <878u3b24f8.fsf@redhat.com>

On 01/27/2016 01:32 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:

> The problem with skip_to_char IMO is that it leads the reader to believe
> that this function performs the same job as strchr (in fact, my first
> reaction when I read this introduction was to think "why not use
> strchr?").  The main difference, however, is that this function actually
> skips everything if the char was not found.
> 
> I believe a name like "skip_to_char_or_nul" may be more appropriate.
> What do you think?

That sounds just like strchrnul, though.  It's not available everywhere,
but, gnulib has a strchrnul module that fixes that.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-27 11:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-26 21:54 Simon Marchi
2016-01-27  1:32 ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2016-01-27 11:22   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2016-01-27 11:53     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-01-27 18:04     ` Sergio Durigan Junior
2016-01-27 18:27     ` Simon Marchi
2016-01-27 21:04       ` Simon Marchi

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