On Apr 30, 2011, at 3:34 AM, Benjamin Kramer wrote:

>> 
>> I've used the second approach in the patch enclosed (which gmail thoroughly 
>> refused to. I have not measured the performance impact though.
> 
> Hi Matthieu,
> 
> We had this discussion before 
> <http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20090928/088120.html>.
> 
> The result was that we don't want to have a NULL check in StringRef's ctor 
> because it would slow down many users of StringRef and instead code that 
> passes NULL to StringRef should be fixed.
> 
> An assert would be ok, but I don't think it's needed because strlen(NULL) is 
> going to crash anyway.

Given that this has come up twice now, I think that adding an assert is the 
best way to go.  That makes it really obviously part of the API contract.

-Chris
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