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authorAndré Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com>2009-12-14 18:01:04 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-12-15 08:53:32 -0800
commitf653398c86a1c104f0992bd788dd4bb065449be4 (patch)
tree69cd79aaca48c2e1bdf9a48b968772347dbd5df2 /lib
parent4e62b0930223fe2f61094ceb1bbb31b3fe4251c2 (diff)
string: factorize skip_spaces and export it to be generally available
On the following sentence: while (*s && isspace(*s)) s++; If *s == 0, isspace() evaluates to ((_ctype[*s] & 0x20) != 0), which evaluates to ((0x08 & 0x20) != 0) which equals to 0 as well. If *s == 1, we depend on isspace() result anyway. In other words, "a char equals zero is never a space", so remove this check. Also, *s != 0 is most common case (non-null string). Fixed const return as noticed by Jan Engelhardt and James Bottomley. Fixed unnecessary extra cast on strstrip() as noticed by Jan Engelhardt. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r--lib/string.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/lib/string.c b/lib/string.c
index e96421ab9a9..3a912a4e9a6 100644
--- a/lib/string.c
+++ b/lib/string.c
@@ -338,6 +338,20 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(strnchr);
#endif
/**
+ * skip_spaces - Removes leading whitespace from @s.
+ * @s: The string to be stripped.
+ *
+ * Returns a pointer to the first non-whitespace character in @s.
+ */
+char *skip_spaces(const char *str)
+{
+ while (isspace(*str))
+ ++str;
+ return (char *)str;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(skip_spaces);
+
+/**
* strstrip - Removes leading and trailing whitespace from @s.
* @s: The string to be stripped.
*
@@ -360,10 +374,7 @@ char *strstrip(char *s)
end--;
*(end + 1) = '\0';
- while (*s && isspace(*s))
- s++;
-
- return s;
+ return skip_spaces(s);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL(strstrip);