Stefan Fuhrmann <stefan.fuhrm...@wandisco.com> writes:

> I had two basic options to fix the bug.
> (1) Use svn_string_compare that is there for exactly that purpose.
> (2) Fall back to low-level C-string ops and hope to get it right this time.
>
> I chose with option (1). We use the "sizeof(define) -1" construct
> in at least 32 other places already. I simply went the extra mile
> and documented it, which makes it look like something out of
> the ordinary.

Indeed, this huge comment in r1658439 caught my attention, and I thought that
it wasn't something we do a lot.  Grepping gives more than a hundred hits on
usages like this one, so I am fine with that.

>> By the way, it looks like this changeset [1] did not really remove the
>> XFail() marker from the new test, so I expect the buildbots to turn red.
>
> Yes, I noticed that and fixed it in r1658442.

Thank you for fixing this and the problem itself.


Regards,
Evgeny Kotkov.

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