On a Thursday in 2021, Peter Krempa wrote:
There's an optimization in virBufferAdd which returns early when the
length of the added string is 0 (given that auto-indent is disabled).

The optimization causes inconsistent behaviour between these two cases:

virBufferAdd(buf, "", 0);  // this doesn't initialize the buffer

and

virBufferAdd(buf, "", -1); //this initializes the buffer

Since using an empty string is used to prime the buffer to an empty
string it can be confusing. Remove the optimization.

This fixes such a wrong initialization done in x86FeatureNames.

Note that our code in many places expects that if no virBuffer APIs are
used on a buffer object, then NULL should be retured, so we can't always
prime the buffer to an empty string.

Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkre...@redhat.com>
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src/util/virbuffer.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


Reviewed-by: Ján Tomko <jto...@redhat.com>

Jano

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