Re: Patch: remove redundant loop in StringBuffer

[Anthony Green]

On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 08:17, Tom Tromey wrote:
> I think the loop is still needed for the case where you resize the
> StringBuffer but the underlying array is not resized.  For instance,
> you might fill in the buffer, shrink it, then regrow it.  In this
> case, don't we need the newly visible slots to be \0 instead of
> whatever appeared in them earlier?

No, I don't think so.  That's what I meant in my comment by "No part of
StringBuffer depends on padding out the rest of the StringBuffer with
'\0'".  I looked through the code and couldn't find where this would
matter.

AG

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