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4 changes: 2 additions & 2 deletions clippy_lints/src/strlen_on_c_strings.rs
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Expand Up @@ -14,8 +14,8 @@ declare_clippy_lint! {
/// and suggest calling `as_bytes().len()` or `to_bytes().len()` respectively instead.
///
/// ### Why is this bad?
/// This avoids calling an unsafe `libc` function.
/// Currently, it also avoids calculating the length.
/// `libc::strlen` requires an unsafe block, which we don't really need if all
/// we want to know is the length of the string.
///
/// ### Example
/// ```rust, ignore
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