On a Thursday in 2021, Peter Krempa wrote:
There's an optimization in virBufferAdd which returns early when
the
length of the added string is 0 (given that auto-indent is disabled).
The optimization causes inconsistent behaviour between these two cases:
virBufferAdd(buf, "", 0); // this doesn't initialize the buffer
and
virBufferAdd(buf, "", -1); //this initializes the buffer
Since using an empty string is used to prime the buffer to an empty
string it can be confusing. Remove the optimization.
This fixes such a wrong initialization done in x86FeatureNames.
Note that our code in many places expects that if no virBuffer APIs are
used on a buffer object, then NULL should be retured, so we can't always
prime the buffer to an empty string.
Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com>
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src/util/virbuffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jtomko(a)redhat.com>
Jano