[PATCH] newlib: libc: Improved the readability of strpbrk with minor optimization

[Jeff Johnston]

Unless I am missing something, I think the code could be made even simpler
to return the pointer when found and return NULL otherwise.

index 774db1e..d984745 100644
--- a/newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c
+++ b/newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c
@@ -29,23 +29,16 @@ strpbrk (const char *s1,
        const char *s2)
 {
   const char *c = s2;
-  if (!*s1)
-    return (char *) NULL;

   while (*s1)
     {
       for (c = s2; *c; c++)
        {
          if (*s1 == *c)
-           break;
+           return (char *) s1;
        }
-      if (*c)
-       break;
       s1++;
     }

-  if (*c == '\0')
-    s1 = NULL;
-
-  return (char *) s1;
+  return (char *) NULL;
 }

On Wed, Dec 20, 2023 at 1:12 AM Xiao Zeng <zengxiao@eswincomputing.com>
wrote:

> Signed-off-by: Xiao Zeng <zengxiao@eswincomputing.com>
> ---
>  newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c b/newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c
> index 774db1e6d..95e89c20c 100644
> --- a/newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c
> +++ b/newlib/libc/string/strpbrk.c
> @@ -37,15 +37,14 @@ strpbrk (const char *s1,
>        for (c = s2; *c; c++)
>         {
>           if (*s1 == *c)
> -           break;
> +           goto end;
>         }
> -      if (*c)
> -       break;
>        s1++;
>      }
>
>    if (*c == '\0')
>      s1 = NULL;
>
> +end:
>    return (char *) s1;
>  }
> --
> 2.17.1
>
>
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