Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] lib: add sputchar() helper

[Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Sep 04, 2021 at 06:36:41PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-09-04 at 16:10 -0700, Yury Norov wrote:
> > There are 47 occurrences of the code snippet like this:
> > 	if (buf < end)
> > 	        *buf = ' ';
> > 	++buf;
> > 
> > This patch adds a helper function sputchar() to replace opencoding.
> > It adds a lot to readability, and also saves 43 bytes of text on x86.
> 
> I think this patch does little to improve readability.
> 
> Perhaps make it void and use something like
> 
> 	sputchar(*buf++, end, <whateverchar>);

It's better, thank you.
 
> Though the sputchar name doesn't seems particularly intelligible.

I'm OK with any better name.

Thanks,
Yury

> > +static inline char *sputchar(char *buf, const char *end, char c)
> > +{
> > +	if (buf < end)
> > +		*buf = c;
> > +
> > +	return buf + 1;
> > +}
> > +
> >  /*
> >   * General tracing related utility functions - trace_printk(),
> >   * tracing_on/tracing_off and tracing_start()/tracing_stop
> > diff --git a/lib/string_helpers.c b/lib/string_helpers.c
> []
> > @@ -335,12 +335,8 @@ static bool escape_space(unsigned char c, char **dst, char *end)
> >  		return false;
> >  	}
> > 
> > -	if (out < end)
> > -		*out = '\\';
> > -	++out;
> > -	if (out < end)
> > -		*out = to;
> > -	++out;
> > +	out = sputchar(out, end, '\\');
> > +	out = sputchar(out, end, to);
> 
> etc...
>