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Qyriad e67dac1d74 libexpr: rename confusing makeImmutableString -> gcCopyStringIfNeeded
The purpose of this function has little to do with immutability. Value's
strings are never mutated, and the point of this function is to
singleton empty strings.

Change-Id: Ifd41dd952409d54e4d3de9ab59064e6928b0e480
2024-07-20 20:20:01 +00:00

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#include "gc-alloc.hh"
#include <cstring>
#include <string_view>
namespace nix
{
char const * gcCopyStringIfNeeded(std::string_view toCopyFrom)
{
if (toCopyFrom.empty()) {
return "";
}
size_t const size = toCopyFrom.size();
char * cstr = gcAllocString(size + 1);
memcpy(cstr, toCopyFrom.data(), size);
cstr[size] = '\0';
return cstr;
}
}