[libvirt] PATCH: Remove use of strcmp, etc

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Fri May 9 21:43:48 UTC 2008


On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 10:42:08PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 11:40:39PM +0200, Jim Meyering wrote:
> > "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > This patch removes all use of strcmp, strncmp, strcasecmp and strncasecmp
> > > in favour of the equality macros we have defined in internal.h, eg STREQ,
> > > STRNEQ, STRNEQLEN, STREQLEN, etc, etc
> > 
> > Nice.  With that, you can remove sc_prohibit_strcmp
> > from the list of disabled checks in Makefile.cfg.
> > You might want to extend the corresponding regexp in Makefile.maint
> > to prohibit the other completely excluded functions like strncmp.
> > 
> > BTW, did you make this change automatically?  or do a binary before/after
> > comparison.  In which case there's not much point in reviewing the details...
> 
> No I did it manually & checked with inspection. Could try a binary diff
> with & without the patch if you want...

Actually a binary diff won't work because of places where I changed 
from strncmp to  STRPREFIX - the latter includes a calls to strlen
instead of hardcoding the constant

Dan
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