Don't misinterpret blank configuration entries as sentinels

[empserver] / src / lib / common / stmtch.c

diff --git a/src/lib/common/stmtch.c b/src/lib/common/stmtch.c
index fd2cde04e453ca92bea6c9200ab2e83d805deae6..10b59a793d8b1eaff46784c93f5ef4dab170da21 100644 (file)
--- a/src/lib/common/stmtch.c
+++ b/src/lib/common/stmtch.c
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 /*
  *  Empire - A multi-player, client/server Internet based war game.
- *  Copyright (C) 1986-2010, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
- *                           Ken Stevens, Steve McClure
+ *  Copyright (C) 1986-2011, Dave Pare, Jeff Bailey, Thomas Ruschak,
+ *                Ken Stevens, Steve McClure, Markus Armbruster
  *
- *  This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ *  Empire is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
  *  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
- *  the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
+ *  the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
  *  (at your option) any later version.
  *
  *  This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@
  *  GNU General Public License for more details.
  *
  *  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
- *  along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
- *  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
+ *  along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  *
  *  ---
  *
@@ -28,7 +27,7 @@
  *  stmtch.c: Matching operations on structures and commands
  *
  *  Known contributors to this file:
- *     Markus Armbruster, 2004-2008
+ *     Markus Armbruster, 2004-2010
  */
 
 #include <config.h>
@@ -40,19 +39,25 @@
  * Return M_NOTFOUND if there are no matches, M_NOTUNIQUE if there are
  * several.
  * Each array element has a pointer to its name stored at offset OFFS.
- * Search stops when this name is a null pointer or empty.
+ * Search stops when this name is a null pointer.
+ * It ignores elements with an empty name.
  * NEEDLE is compared to element names with mineq(NEEDLE, NAME).
- * ELT_SIZE gives the size of an array element.
+ * SIZE gives the size of an array element.
  */
 int
-stmtch(char *needle, void *haystack, ptrdiff_t offs, size_t elt_size)
+stmtch(char *needle, void *haystack, ptrdiff_t offs, size_t size)
 {
-#define ELT_NAME(i) (*(char **)((char *)haystack + (i)*elt_size + offs))
     int i, res;
+    char *name;
 
     res = M_NOTFOUND;
-    for (i = 0; ELT_NAME(i) && ELT_NAME(i)[0] != 0; i++) {
-       switch (mineq(needle, ELT_NAME(i))) {
+    for (i = 0;; i++) {
+       name = *(char **)((char *)haystack + i * size + offs);
+       if (!name)
+           break;
+       if (!*name)
+           continue;
+       switch (mineq(needle, name)) {
        case ME_MISMATCH:
            break;
        case ME_PARTIAL:
@@ -66,7 +71,6 @@ stmtch(char *needle, void *haystack, ptrdiff_t offs, size_t elt_size)
        }
     }
     return res;
-#undef ELT_NAME
 }
 
 /*