Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] Introduce virStrncpy.

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Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Unfortunately that's not possible in the case of virStrcpyStatic().  Because
>> virStrcpyStatic() does a sizeof(dest), you have to have the original char
>> foo[123], not a char *, to get something meaningful.  That means that it has to
>> either be a macro or not exist at all.  (I could be convinced of the latter, but
>> I found it convenient when converting a number of these locations)
>>
>> I could make virStrcpy a small function, though.
> 
> Yes, that would be quite nice.  It would remove the multiple-evaluation 
> problem from virStrcpyStatic too.
> 
> In the followup I'd also like to have macro arguments parenthesized:
> 
> #define virStrcpyStatic(dest, src) \
>    virStrcpy((dest), (src), sizeof(dest))
> 
> I don't remember off the top of my head the case in which that would be 
> a problem (since these are just function arguments), but I'm sure Jim 
> Meyering could enlighten us. ;-)

OK, I've committed this now, with the changes suggested by DV and Paolo.  Please
take a look and let me know if the code I committed works for everyone.

-- 
Chris Lalancette

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