From: Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 19:27:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [AGGREGATED PATCH] Fix in-place editing functions in convert.c
Message-ID: <37fcd2780710051227n96d29a9v543831ca8292c862@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0710051036282.23684@woody.linux-foundation.org>

On 10/5/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>  - Qt (QString): QString::"data()", "ascii()" or "utf8()" or something.
>
>    At least this has the excuse of really being able to handle different
>    locales (it didn't do that originally, though!), but they end up having
>    a million helper functions exactly because you cannot use the normal
>    string routines on anything!

I am afraid you cannot allow the direct access to the internal buffer of
a string if this buffer can be implicitly shared between different
instances as it is the case with QString. Because when you want to make
some modification or want to get a non-const pointer to this buffer, its
content has to be copied if the buffer is shared between a few copies.

On the other hand, I don't see what is the problem with using C string
routines with it. ::data() returns a pointer and :capacity () returns
allocated size of the buffer. ::resize() changes the size of the string.
If you need a greater allocated size, you can use ::reserve().
Or did I miss something?

Dmitry