[cfe-dev] Reduction of temporaries

[Richard Smith via cfe-dev]

This seems like it would be a reasonable clang-tidy check to me.

On Fri, 12 Apr 2019 at 01:56, Csaba Raduly via cfe-dev
<cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, one of my colleagues made the following change in our code:
>
> - h += q.substr(0, q_max);
> + h.append  (q, 0, q_max);
>
> This eliminates the temporary std::string returned by substr.
>
> std::string has a few operations (insert/append/replace) that accept a
> substring of of the input. Is this something that would be worth
> finding automatically? (e.g. a clang-tidy check)
>
> Csaba
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