<div dir="ltr"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 2:20 PM Greg Clayton <<a href="mailto:gclayton@apple.com">gclayton@apple.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br class="gmail_msg">
> On Sep 21, 2016, at 1:55 PM, Zachary Turner <<a href="mailto:zturner@google.com" class="gmail_msg" target="_blank">zturner@google.com</a>> wrote:<br class="gmail_msg">
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> :-/ The same thing happens if you write Foo &f = *nullptr; It's a reference.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I might be a good idea to add an overloaded constructor for nullptr and void * and delete them so that we can't implicitly create a StringRef from nullptr or NULL and cause as crash as it wouldn't compile in the first place.<br class="gmail_msg">
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> Did you try StringRef::withNullAsEmpty()?<br class="gmail_msg">
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I am still catching code conversion issues with things like:<br class="gmail_msg">
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if (name == nullptr)<br class="gmail_msg"></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yea you have to handle it on a case by case basis. What I've been doing is to look around the surrounding code. If it's obvious that it's not null (because it was just checked above, or because it's .c_str() of something, or it came from a string literal, or whatever, then i just call llvm::StringRef(name); If I don't know, even if I can probably guess, I do one of two things. If it seems like a rabbit hole you don't want to venture into, just do withNullAsEmpty. If it's a trivial utility function that doesn't pass the string through many layers of nested calls, go change that function to return a StringRef, then come back. </div><div><br></div><div>Another thing that's helped me a lot (although it will make the code slightly verbose in the short term) is that any function I'm changing the signature of from const char* to StringRef, copy the declaration and =delete the const char* version. This way the compiler won't allow the implicit conversion, and you'll be forced to fix up every callsite. This is annoying because 99% of the time you end up explicitly constructing StringRefs from literals, which will obviously work, but it's the only way to guarantee that the conversion won't introduce null pointer errors.</div><div><br></div><div>Once the code is more or less done, we can go back and remove all the =delete functions we added so you don't have to write explicit conversions anymore.</div></div></div>