[neomutt-devel] strfcpy() improvement

[Richard Russon]

> In fact, I would suggest turning it into a function

I didn't actually consider that.
I was just happy to eliminate 100 false positives from coverity :-)

> Most modern compilers are smart enough to inline such a trivial function.

True.  Not that anything in NeoMutt is *that* time-sensitive.

> The more macros we get rid of, the cleaner and safer the code is.

Agreed.  Plus the function could be quite simple.

The original macro ran strndup which returns a pointer to 'dest'.
There are 439 uses of strfcpy and none of them use the return value.

However, a quick bit of research shows that using a function this way
isn't considered wise, because the caller can't tell if the string has
been truncated.

I'm open to suggestions (and code)

Rich
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