The main use of this method appears to be when parsing attributes with floating
point values in HTML. By changing from PR_strtod, this change does have some
semantic differences around edge-cases, though I've tried to keep it compliant
with the wording in the standard.
Here are some of the edge-cases I investigated:
1. We appear to build nspr with INFNAN_CHECK undefined, meaning that we did not
parse strings like "inf", "infinity" and "nan" both before and after this
change.
2. PR_strtod already ignored locale (built with USE_LOCALE undefined), so
locale behaviour shouldn't have changed.
3. Neither PR_strtod nor the spec support hex floats, so I didn't enable them
in double-conversion.
4. Leading whitespace is skipped by both PR_strtod and in the spec, so is
skipped after this change.
5. Numbers too large to fit in a double (e.g. 2E308) were previously returned
as inf or -inf by PR_strtod. The spec specifies that these values should return
an error instead, so they have been changed to produce an error with this
change.
This is a web-visible change (<progress value=2E308 max=10> is indeterminate
in Chromium and complete in Firefox before this change, it will be
indeterminate for both after the change).
6. Parsing for floats & doubles are now handled seperately due to
differences in the maximum and minimum representable values.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148305
The last remaining things requiring unified builds in this directory are the
explicit specializations. As each class' methods are now confined to a single
file, these can now be moved to the appropriate .cpp files.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148303
The biggest set of APIs from ns[T]StringObsolete which are still heavily used
are the string searching APIs. It appears the intention was for these to be
replaced by the `FindInReadable` APIs, however that doesn't appear to have
happened.
In addition, the APIs have some quirks around their handling of mixed character
widths. These APIs generally supported both narrow strings and the native
string type, probably because char16_t string literals weren't available until
c++11. Finally they also used easy-to-confuse unlabeled boolean and integer
optional arguments to control behaviour.
These patches do the following major changes to the searching APIs:
1. The ASCII case-insensitive search method was split out as
LowerCaseFindASCII, rather than using a boolean. This should be less
error-prone and more explicit, and allows the method to continue to use
narrow string literals for all string types (as only ASCII is supported).
2. The other [R]Find methods were restricted to only support arguments with
matching character types. I considered adding a FindASCII method which would
use narrow string literals for both wide and narrow strings but it would've
been the same amount of work as changing all of the literals to unicode
literals.
This ends up being the bulk of the changes in the patch.
3. All find methods were re-implemented using std::basic_string_view's find
algorithm or stl algorithms to reduce code complexity, and avoid the need to
carry around the logic from nsStringObsolete.cpp.
4. The implementations were moved to nsTStringRepr.cpp.
5. An overload of Find was added to try to catch callers which previously
called `Find(..., false)` or `Find(..., true)` to set case-sensitivity, due
to booleans normally implicitly coercing to `index_type`. This should
probably be removed at some point, but may be useful during the transition.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148300
This patch moves EqualsIgnoreCase to ns[T]StringObsolete, and removes
the aCount argument, instead migrating callers to use `StringBeginsWith`
with a case-insensitive comparator.
In addition, nsTStringRepr::Compare was removed and replaced with either
calls to methods like `StringBeginsWith` or the global `Compare` method.
These changes required some modifications at call-sites but should make
the behaviour less surprising and more consistent.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148299
Due to the history of how nsString was implemented, many APIs ended up being
implemented in inappropriate files. This change moves simple definitions which
won't require any changes for each type to happen within that type's .cpp file.
This is necessary to eventually enable the directory to be built without
unified builds.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148298
The last remaining things requiring unified builds in this directory are the
explicit specializations. As each class' methods are now confined to a single
file, these can now be moved to the appropriate .cpp files.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148303
The biggest set of APIs from ns[T]StringObsolete which are still heavily used
are the string searching APIs. It appears the intention was for these to be
replaced by the `FindInReadable` APIs, however that doesn't appear to have
happened.
In addition, the APIs have some quirks around their handling of mixed character
widths. These APIs generally supported both narrow strings and the native
string type, probably because char16_t string literals weren't available until
c++11. Finally they also used easy-to-confuse unlabeled boolean and integer
optional arguments to control behaviour.
These patches do the following major changes to the searching APIs:
1. The ASCII case-insensitive search method was split out as
LowerCaseFindASCII, rather than using a boolean. This should be less
error-prone and more explicit, and allows the method to continue to use
narrow string literals for all string types (as only ASCII is supported).
2. The other [R]Find methods were restricted to only support arguments with
matching character types. I considered adding a FindASCII method which would
use narrow string literals for both wide and narrow strings but it would've
been the same amount of work as changing all of the literals to unicode
literals.
This ends up being the bulk of the changes in the patch.
3. All find methods were re-implemented using std::basic_string_view's find
algorithm or stl algorithms to reduce code complexity, and avoid the need to
carry around the logic from nsStringObsolete.cpp.
4. The implementations were moved to nsTStringRepr.cpp.
5. An overload of Find was added to try to catch callers which previously
called `Find(..., false)` or `Find(..., true)` to set case-sensitivity, due
to booleans normally implicitly coercing to `index_type`. This should
probably be removed at some point, but may be useful during the transition.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148300
In addition to moving these methods to a more appropriate file, they were
simplified to make them easier to maintain in the future.
nsTStringRepr::Compare was extended to also work on char16_t strings, and the
case insensitive and other options were removed as they aren't necessary. This
required some changes to callers in the tree.
The EqualsIgnoreCase method was also simplified by using `std::string_view`.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148299
Due to the history of how nsString was implemented, many APIs ended up being
implemented in inappropriate files. This change moves simple definitions which
won't require any changes for each type to happen within that type's .cpp file.
This is necessary to eventually enable the directory to be built without
unified builds.
Differential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D148298
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