RE: [PATCH] preprocessor/58580 - preprocessor goes OOM with warning for zero literals

[Bernd Edlinger <bernd.edlinger@hotmail.de>]

Hi,

On Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:33:41, Dodji Seketeli wrote:
>
> +/* Reads the next line from FILE into *LINE. If *LINE is too small
> + (or NULL) it is allocated (or extended) to have enough space to
> + containe the line. *LINE_LENGTH must contain the size of the
> + initial*LINE buffer. It's then updated by this function to the
> + actual length of the returned line. Note that the returned line
> + can contain several zero bytes. Also note that the returned string
> + is allocated in static storage that is going to be re-used by
> + subsequent invocations of read_line. */
> +
> +static bool
> +read_next_line (fcache *cache, char ** line, ssize_t *line_len)
> +{
> + char *l = NULL;
> + ssize_t len = get_next_line (cache, &l);
> +
> + if (len> 0)
> + {
> + if (*line == NULL)
> {
> - string[pos + len - 1] = 0;
> - return string;
> + *line = XNEWVEC (char, len);
> + *line_len = len;
> }
> - pos += len;
> - string = XRESIZEVEC (char, string, string_len * 2);
> - string_len *= 2;
> + else
> + if (*line_len < len)
> + *line = XRESIZEVEC (char, *line, len);
> +
> + memmove (*line, l, len);
> + (*line)[len - 1] = '\0';
> + *line_len = --len;

Generally, I would prefer to use memcpy,
if it is clear that the memory does not overlap.

You copy one char too much and set it to zero?

Using -- on a value that goes out of scope looks
awkward IMHO.

Bernd.

> + return true;
> }
> -
> - return pos ? string : NULL;
> +
> + return false;
> +}