[PATCH][BZ #15346] Allow leading and trailing spaces in getdate

[Rich Felker]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 01:12:56PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > +  /* Skip leading spaces.  */
> 
> s/spaces/whitespace/
> 
> > +  while (string[i] && isspace (string[i]))
> > +    i++;
> 
> Avoid Boolean coercion: string[i] != '\0'.
> But since you've already done strlen, why not i < inlen?

I don't think it matters here, but in general the idiom of testing for
a zero byte is superior to comparing against the length, because it
involves one fewer variables (and thus less register pressure) in the
loop.

Rich