commit 3eea668052db201fe3d0453324a6b909e3568d38
Author: Oswald Buddenhagen <o...@users.sf.net>
Date: Thu Dec 29 15:08:26 2016 +0100
make use of memchr() in strnlen() replacement after all
turns out the comment advising against it was bogus - unlike for
memcmp(), the standard does indeed prescribe that the memchr()
implementation may not read past the first occurrence of the searched
char.
src/util.c | 7 ++-----
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/src/util.c b/src/util.c
index c226c1b..ae4d6b6 100644
--- a/src/util.c
+++ b/src/util.c
@@ -225,11 +225,8 @@ memrchr( const void *s, int c, size_t n )
size_t
strnlen( const char *str, size_t maxlen )
{
- size_t len;
-
- /* It's tempting to use memchr(), but it's allowed to read past the end
of the actual string. */
- for (len = 0; len < maxlen && str[len]; len++) {}
- return len;
+ const char *estr = memchr( str, 0, maxlen );
+ return estr ? (size_t)(estr - str) : maxlen;
}
#endif
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