[LCP]dynamic string

[Joachim Bauernberger]

Hi Malcolm,

Sorry for not responding earlier ...
I'm not to sure by how much slower this is gonna be since the function 
will be implemented inside a parser and is most frequently called.
Maybe calling strlen(dest) (as you suggest) within the function might 
not even be much more overhead than updateing str_t->count, str_t->size 
...  
I will do some tests.

Thanks for the idea,
Joachim   

On Friday 31 May 2002 12:38, Malcolm V wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-05-30 at 04:59, Joachim Bauernberger wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I would like to implement a string object (structure) for a library 
> > which I can grow dynamically. 
> > I intend to use this in a situation where I don't want to worry 
whether
> > src is gonna fit into dst (str(n)cpy() problem).
> > So far I have come up with the following however I am not really 
sure 
> > how efficient/useful this is. 
> 
>   Why not just create a replacement function for strcpy/cat that uses
> the same method to dynamically grow your destination (dst)?
> 
> This would have the disadvantage of having to recalculate the size of
> dst each time it is called, but it gives the advantage that in all 
other
> cases it is simply a char pointer which you can pass off to other
> functions without being worried about having to update the values in 
the
> rest of the structure (count and size).
> 
> Just my thoughts,
>   Malcolm V.
>