Re: [libvirt] [PATCH 10/10] Replace sscanf in PCI device address parsing

On 03/31/2010 10:38 AM, Eric Blake wrote: > Hmm, thinking aloud here: your patch series has introduced several > instances of checking STRPREFIX, then advancing to the end of the > prefix. Maybe it's time to introduce a helper macro that does both the > check and advances the pointer to the end of the match? Something like: > > #define STPCMP(ptr, cmp) \ > (STRPREFIX (*(ptr), cmp) ? (ptr) += strlen (cmp) : NULL) > > STPCMP(&tmp, " : "); > if (tmp == NULL) > error... > else > use tmp... More thinking aloud - that looks a bit confusing compared to other stp* interfaces. Maybe: #define STPCMP(str, cmp) \ (STRPREFIX (str, cmp) ? (str) + strlen (cmp) : NULL) if ((tmp = STPCMP(tmp, " : ") == NULL) error... else use tmp...