refactor: replace char_u with char

Work on https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/459

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/src/nvim/strings.c b/src/nvim/strings.c
index 16691d0ded..423436eccc 100644
--- a/src/nvim/strings.c
+++ b/src/nvim/strings.c
@@ -59,15 +59,6 @@ char_u *vim_strsave(const char_u *string)
 /// Copy up to `len` bytes of `string` into newly allocated memory and
 /// terminate with a NUL. The allocated memory always has size `len + 1`, even
 /// when `string` is shorter.
-char_u *vim_strnsave(const char_u *string, size_t len)
-  FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_RET FUNC_ATTR_MALLOC FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_ALL
-{
-  // strncpy is intentional: some parts of Vim use `string` shorter than `len`
-  // and expect the remainder to be zeroed out.
-  return (char_u *)strncpy(xmallocz(len), (char *)string, len);
-}
-
-/// A clone of vim_strnsave() that uses char* instead of char_u*
 char *xstrnsave(const char *string, size_t len)
   FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_RET FUNC_ATTR_MALLOC FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_ALL
 {
@@ -318,15 +309,13 @@ char_u *vim_strsave_up(const char_u *string)
   return p1;
 }
 
-/*
- * Like vim_strnsave(), but make all characters uppercase.
- * This uses ASCII lower-to-upper case translation, language independent.
- */
-char_u *vim_strnsave_up(const char_u *string, size_t len)
+/// Like xstrnsave(), but make all characters uppercase.
+/// This uses ASCII lower-to-upper case translation, language independent.
+char *vim_strnsave_up(const char *string, size_t len)
   FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_RET FUNC_ATTR_MALLOC FUNC_ATTR_NONNULL_ALL
 {
-  char_u *p1 = vim_strnsave(string, len);
-  vim_strup(p1);
+  char *p1 = xstrnsave(string, len);
+  vim_strup((char_u *)p1);
   return p1;
 }