[PATCH 4/4] last_char_is: code shrink

[Martin Lewis]

Hi,

I'm not sure what I'm missing, from a quick glance at strrchr (glibc's) it
seems that it scans the string only once?

Thank you,
Martin

On Tue, 30 Jun 2020 at 01:34, Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> This scans the string twice, unnecessarily. Let's not do that.
>
> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 3:45 PM Martin Lewis <martin.lewis.x84 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > function                                             old     new   delta
> > last_char_is                                          53      30     -23
> >
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-23)             Total: -23
> bytes
> >    text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
> >  981322   16915    1872 1000109   f42ad busybox_old
> >  981299   16915    1872 1000086   f4296 busybox_unstripped
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Martin Lewis <martin.lewis.x84 at gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  libbb/last_char_is.c | 9 ++++-----
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/libbb/last_char_is.c b/libbb/last_char_is.c
> > index 66f2e3635..1fff08f9f 100644
> > --- a/libbb/last_char_is.c
> > +++ b/libbb/last_char_is.c
> > @@ -13,11 +13,10 @@
> >   */
> >  char* FAST_FUNC last_char_is(const char *s, int c)
> >  {
> > -       if (s && *s) {
> > -               size_t sz = strlen(s) - 1;
> > -               s += sz;
> > -               if ( (unsigned char)*s == c)
> > -                       return (char*)s;
> > +       if (s) {
> > +               char *index = strrchr(s, c);
> > +               if (index && *(index + 1) == '\0')
> > +                       return index;
> >         }
> >         return NULL;
> >  }
> > --
> > 2.11.0
> >
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