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| -rw-r--r-- | generic/tclStringObj.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/generic/tclStringObj.c b/generic/tclStringObj.c index d43cc45..0f238cf 100644 --- a/generic/tclStringObj.c +++ b/generic/tclStringObj.c @@ -418,12 +418,16 @@ Tcl_GetCharLength( int numChars; /* - * Optimize the case where we're really dealing with a bytearray object - * without string representation; we don't need to convert to a string to - * perform the get-length operation. + * Optimize the case where we're really dealing with a bytearray object; + * we don't need to convert to a string to perform the get-length operation. + * + * NOTE that we do not need the bytearray to be "pure". A ByteArray value + * with a string rep cannot be trusted to represent the same value as the + * string rep, but it *can* be trusted to have the same character length + * as the string rep, which is all this routine cares about. */ - if (TclIsPureByteArray(objPtr)) { + if (objPtr->typePtr == &tclByteArrayType) { int length; (void) Tcl_GetByteArrayFromObj(objPtr, &length); |