[PATCH] D27721: Add a c_str() member to StringLiteral

[Zachary Turner via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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string literals are necessarily null-terminated, so it makes sense to provide a `c_str()` method to treat it as a null terminated string.

In practice this arises because you might imagine a global table that contains option names which you want to pass to something like `getopt_long_only`, but in other situations you might want to do some comparisons on the option name (for example, is `--foo` in the options table), where you want to make use of `StringRef` comparison operators.  Of course, there are tons of other system calls or library calls which we don't have control over that take `const char*` and where we pull arguments for these functiosn from a global table of `const char *`, so this doesn't seem like just a one-off case.

Writing `.str().c_str()` for these cases is problematic since it means we cannot assume the storage will live longer than the current statement, plus it's just inefficient since we're unnecessarily incurring a copy.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D27721

Files:
  include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h


Index: include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
===================================================================
--- include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
+++ include/llvm/ADT/StringRef.h
@@ -854,6 +854,8 @@
   public:
     template <size_t N>
     constexpr StringLiteral(const char (&Str)[N]) : StringRef(Str, N - 1) {}
+
+    const char *c_str() const { return data(); }
   };
 
   /// @name StringRef Comparison Operators


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