Add a string_view version of startswith

Makes sure that the string is longer than prefix, so that strncmp will
do the right thing even if the string is not null-terminated.

For use in my string_view conversion patch:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2019-10/msg00030.html
https://gnutoolchain-gerrit.osci.io/r/c/binutils-gdb/+/125

gdb/ChangeLog:

2019-10-28  Christian Biesinger  <cbiesinger@google.com>

	* gdbsupport/common-utils.h (startswith): Add an overloaded version
	that takes gdb::string_view arguments.

Change-Id: I5389855de2fd70e7065a789a79374b0693651b71
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Christian Biesinger 2019-10-01 13:41:58 -05:00
parent 1ee3542c0a
commit 87f34879e5
2 changed files with 17 additions and 0 deletions

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@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
2019-10-28 Christian Biesinger <cbiesinger@google.com>
* gdbsupport/common-utils.h (startswith): Add an overloaded version
that takes gdb::string_view arguments.
2019-10-26 Tom de Vries <tdevries@suse.de>
* aarch64-linux-tdep.c: Fix typos in comments.

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@ -43,6 +43,8 @@
#endif
#endif
#include "gdb_string_view.h"
/* xmalloc(), xrealloc() and xcalloc() have already been declared in
"libiberty.h". */
@ -118,6 +120,16 @@ startswith (const char *string, const char *pattern)
return strncmp (string, pattern, strlen (pattern)) == 0;
}
/* Version of startswith that takes string_view arguments. See comment
above. */
static inline bool
startswith (gdb::string_view string, gdb::string_view pattern)
{
return (string.length () >= pattern.length ()
&& strncmp (string.data (), pattern.data (), pattern.length ()) == 0);
}
ULONGEST strtoulst (const char *num, const char **trailer, int base);
/* Skip leading whitespace characters in INP, returning an updated