Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH v4 12/12] tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function

On Sat, 07 Nov 2009, Andr? Goddard Rosa wrote:
> Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
> remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
> evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
> "a char equals zero is never a space".

You didn't document in isspace() that it must return false for NUL. Please
do that before you remove any such checks.

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Henrique Holschuh


2009-11-14 07:44:33

by André Goddard Rosa

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Subject: Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH v4 12/12] tree-wide: convert open calls to remove spaces to skip_spaces() lib function

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 1:20 PM, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
<[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 07 Nov 2009, Andr? Goddard Rosa wrote:
>> Also, while at it, if we see (*str && isspace(*str)), we can be sure to
>> remove the first condition (*str) as the second one (isspace(*str)) also
>> evaluates to 0 whenever *str == 0, making it redundant. In other words,
>> "a char equals zero is never a space".
>
> You didn't document in isspace() that it must return false for NUL. ?Please
> do that before you remove any such checks.
>

Good idea Henrique, I will do it!

Thank you,
Andr?