[cvs] bogofilter/src lexer.c,1.145,1.146

[Matthias Andree]

On Sat, 31 Dec 2005, David Relson wrote:

> Confession time:->  I don't fully understand the buffering code,
> myself.  When developing it, I started with a vision of what was
> needed.  However as the implementation progressed, various conditions
> cropped up that needed special handling.  The end product is the result
> of tweaking and "debugging into submission".

OK, let's fork the 1.1 branch in February 2006 or so, and then clean up
all the buffer handling.

> The "if (c == '\0')" check that you mention is an example of "doing
> what works".  Without this "early out" from the loop, there are
> problems. Possibly this loop can be written as
> 
>   for (....)
>    if ( !isalnum(c))
>       return false
> 
> or similar.

OK. We'll leave it as it is now, since we know that fixes the problem,
but we'll have to do some more debugging.

-- 
Matthias Andree