Re: [aspell-devel] Problems building 0.60.2 on HP-UX 11.x

[Kevin Atkinson]

On Wed, 22 Dec 2004, Gary Setter wrote:

> <snip>
> >       const char empty_str[1];
> >                  ^^^^^^^^^
> <snip>
> My cheap fix was to change the definition to of empty_str to
>  const char *empty_str;
> and initialize it to empty string in the constructors.
>  StringMap() : empty_str("") {}
>  StringMap(const StringMap & other) : empty_str("")
> {copy(other);}
>
> But the real question is, why do we need this?

It was a memory optimization that most likely isn't worth it.  The 
attached patch removes empty_str and replaces it with "".

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