[LLVMdev] Handling of unsafe functions

[Chris Lattner]

On Sep 20, 2012, at 3:08 PM, Richard Smith <richard at metafoo.co.uk> wrote:
> > I agree with Sean that we should move the code using C strings to LLVM
> > safe data types.
> 
> I agree.
> 
> >
> > And one more thing: it is interesting that the "unsafe"
> > APFloat::convertToHexString (from your patch) is not used anywhere.
> 
> Zap it!  Oh wait, is it used by Clang or something else?
> 
> Clang doesn't use it, but LLDB does, with an arbitrary-seeming 256-character buffer. Perhaps we should change it to take an llvm::SmallVectorImpl<char>, rather than relying on a character buffer "which must be of sufficient size".

Makes sense to me,

-Chris
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