tweaks: avoid iterating over the same string twice in a row

The function recode_LF_to_NUL() has to iterate over the string anyway
(to replace each \n with \0), so... instead of calling strlen() right
before it, just let recode_LF_to_NUL() return the length of the string.

(This is not speed-critical code, but... it saves one iteration over
the entire buffer contents whenever writing out a file.)

src/files.c

@@ -988,9 +988,7 @@ void send_data(const linestruct *line, int fd)
 
 	/* Send each line, except a final empty line. */
 	while (line != NULL && (line->next != NULL || line->data[0] != '\0')) {
-		size_t length = strlen(line->data);
-
-		recode_LF_to_NUL(line->data);
+		size_t length = recode_LF_to_NUL(line->data);
 
 		if (fwrite(line->data, sizeof(char), length, tube) < length)
 			exit(5);
@@ -1865,11 +1863,10 @@ bool write_file(const char *name, FILE *thefile, bool normal,
 		statusbar(_("Writing..."));
 
 	while (TRUE) {
-		size_t data_len = strlen(line->data);
-		size_t wrote;
+		size_t data_len, wrote;
 
 		/* Decode LFs as the NULs that they are, before writing to disk. */
-		recode_LF_to_NUL(line->data);
+		data_len = recode_LF_to_NUL(line->data);
 
 		wrote = fwrite(line->data, sizeof(char), data_len, thefile);
 

src/history.c

@@ -304,10 +304,8 @@ bool write_list(const linestruct *head, FILE *histfile)
 	const linestruct *item;
 
 	for (item = head; item != NULL; item = item->next) {
-		size_t length = strlen(item->data);
-
 		/* Decode 0x0A bytes as embedded NULs. */
-		recode_LF_to_NUL(item->data);
+		size_t length = recode_LF_to_NUL(item->data);
 
 		if (fwrite(item->data, sizeof(char), length, histfile) < length)
 			return FALSE;
@@ -451,10 +449,9 @@ void save_poshistory(void)
 		path_and_place = nmalloc(strlen(item->filename) + 44);
 		sprintf(path_and_place, "%s %zd %zd\n",
 								item->filename, item->linenumber, item->columnnumber);
-		length = strlen(path_and_place);
 
 		/* Encode newlines in filenames as NULs. */
-		recode_LF_to_NUL(path_and_place);
+		length = recode_LF_to_NUL(path_and_place);
 		/* Restore the terminating newline. */
 		path_and_place[length - 1] = '\n';
 

src/prototypes.h

@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ int digits(ssize_t n);
 bool parse_num(const char *str, ssize_t *result);
 bool parse_line_column(const char *str, ssize_t *line, ssize_t *column);
 void recode_NUL_to_LF(char *string, size_t length);
-void recode_LF_to_NUL(char *string);
+size_t recode_LF_to_NUL(char *string);
 #if !defined(ENABLE_TINY) || defined(ENABLE_TABCOMP) || defined(ENABLE_BROWSER)
 void free_chararray(char **array, size_t len);
 #endif

src/utils.c

@@ -168,14 +168,19 @@ void recode_NUL_to_LF(char *string, size_t length)
 	}
 }
 
-/* In the given string, recode each embedded newline as a NUL. */
-void recode_LF_to_NUL(char *string)
+/* In the given string, recode each embedded newline as a NUL,
+ * and return the number of bytes in the string. */
+size_t recode_LF_to_NUL(char *string)
 {
+	char *beginning = string;
+
 	while (*string != '\0') {
 		if (*string == '\n')
 			*string = '\0';
 		string++;
 	}
+
+	return (string - beginning);
 }
 
 #if !defined(ENABLE_TINY) || defined(ENABLE_TABCOMP) || defined(ENABLE_BROWSER)