On Mon, Oct 30, 2017 at 12:40:39PM +0100, Ulf Hansson wrote:
> On 27 October 2017 at 21:31, SF Markus Elfring
> <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 21:21:40 +0200
> >
> > Add a jump target so that a specific string copy operation is stored
> > only once at the end of this function implementation.
> > Replace two calls of the function "strncpy" by goto statements.
> >
> > This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfr...@users.sourceforge.net>
> 
> Thanks, applied for next!
> 

What's the advantage of this patch?  The new code seems more complicated
to me and GCC automatically reuses duplicate constant strings so there
is no memory savings.

regards,
dan capenter

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