Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4] cutils: Provide strchrnul

[Keno Fischer]

> Suggest return strchrnul("Hello World", 'W') != 6, to avoid worries
> about a sufficiently smart compilers optimizing out a call that would
> otherwise fail to link, say because headers don't match libraries.

I'm happy to do that, but then again, a sufficiently smart compiler might
constant fold this call entirely, so to be completely safe maybe we need

extern char *haystack;
extern char needle;
int main(void) { return strchrnul(haystack, needle) != 6; }

Though frankly if you're in a position for this to be a problem, you've
got bigger problems. Happy to change this though.

> Should this be named HAVE_STRCHRNUL?  It's how it would be named with
> Autoconf...

Ok, I will rename this.

>> +const char *qemu_strchrnul(const char *s, int c)
>> +{
>> +    const char *e = strchr(s, c);
>> +    if (!e) {
>> +        e = s + strlen(s);
>> +    }
>> +    return e;
>
> Stupidest solution that could possibly work.  Okay :)

Well, it's the pattern that was used everywhere in place of this function,
so certainly from a commit factoring this seemed like the most sensible
thing to do.

> How did you find the spots to convert to strchrnul()?

I audited uses of `strchr` and checked for whether they were really doing
`strchrnul` (plus the one use case in code that used to only ever be compiled
on Linux).