[systemd-devel] [PATCH rebased] Use strlen even for constant strings

Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek zbyszek at in.waw.pl
Sun Mar 16 06:56:10 PDT 2014


On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 11:40:07AM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> GCC optimizes strlen("string constant") to a constant, even with -O0.
> Thus, replace patterns like sizeof("string constant")-1 with
> strlen("string constant") where possible, for clarity.  In particular,
> for expressions intended to add up the lengths of components going into
> a string, this often makes it clearer that the expression counts the
> trailing '\0' exactly once, by putting the +1 for the '\0' at the end of
> the expression, rather than hidden in a sizeof in the middle of the
> expression.
Applied, thanks.

> On Sat, Mar 15, 2014 at 05:37:49AM +0100, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > strlen() is indeed much nicer. Unfortunately it stopped applying cleanly...
> > Could you rebase this?
> 
> Done; git rebased it automatically with no conflicts.  (am -3 might work
> in the future for patches that trivially rebase.)
I tried that, but for some reason it didn't seem to work. Maybe
your patch was missing the headers necessayr for -3?

Zbyszek


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