# HG changeset patch
# User Juanma Barranquero <lekktu@gmail.com>
# Date 1181332786 0
# Node ID 1842d7137ff298abae66dafcd9da9d4a8ead04bc
# Parent  0aafd69cb5086219a94b1bae1370bb595c5cd066
(init_strings): Initialize canonical empty strings.
(make_uninit_string, make_uninit_multibyte_string): Return appropriate
canonical empty string when the requested size is 0.

diff -r 0aafd69cb508 -r 1842d7137ff2 src/alloc.c
--- a/src/alloc.c	Fri Jun 08 19:58:33 2007 +0000
+++ b/src/alloc.c	Fri Jun 08 19:59:46 2007 +0000
@@ -1756,6 +1756,8 @@
   string_blocks = NULL;
   n_string_blocks = 0;
   string_free_list = NULL;
+  empty_unibyte_string = make_pure_string ("", 0, 0, 0);
+  empty_multibyte_string = make_pure_string ("", 0, 0, 1);
 }
 
 
@@ -2479,6 +2481,9 @@
      int length;
 {
   Lisp_Object val;
+
+  if (!length)
+    return empty_unibyte_string;
   val = make_uninit_multibyte_string (length, length);
   STRING_SET_UNIBYTE (val);
   return val;
@@ -2497,6 +2502,8 @@
 
   if (nchars < 0)
     abort ();
+  if (!nbytes)
+    return empty_multibyte_string;
 
   s = allocate_string ();
   allocate_string_data (s, nchars, nbytes);