awk: code shrink

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/editors/awk.c b/editors/awk.c
index 829d8a425..d7c114e05 100644
--- a/editors/awk.c
+++ b/editors/awk.c
@@ -658,10 +658,8 @@ static void hash_remove(xhash *hash, const char *name)
 
 /* ------ some useful functions ------ */
 
-static void skip_spaces(char **s)
+static char *skip_spaces(char *p)
 {
-        char *p = *s;
-
         while (1) {
                 if (*p == '\\' && p[1] == '\n') {
                         p++;
@@ -671,7 +669,7 @@ static void skip_spaces(char **s)
                 }
                 p++;
         }
-        *s = p;
+        return p;
 }
 
 /* returns old *s, advances *s past word and terminating NUL */
@@ -822,7 +820,7 @@ static double getvar_i(var *v)
                 if (s && *s) {
                         v->number = my_strtod(&s);
                         if (v->type & VF_USER) {
-                                skip_spaces(&s);
+                                s = skip_spaces(s);
                                 if (*s != '\0')
                                         v->type &= ~VF_USER;
                         }
@@ -981,7 +979,7 @@ static uint32_t next_token(uint32_t expected)
         } else {
                 p = g_pos;
  readnext:
-                skip_spaces(&p);
+                p = skip_spaces(p);
                 g_lineno = t_lineno;
                 if (*p == '#')
                         while (*p != '\n' && *p != '\0')
@@ -1080,7 +1078,7 @@ static uint32_t next_token(uint32_t expected)
                                 tc = TC_VARIABLE;
                                 /* also consume whitespace between functionname and bracket */
                                 if (!(expected & TC_VARIABLE) || (expected & TC_ARRAY))
-                                        skip_spaces(&p);
+                                        p = skip_spaces(p);
                                 if (*p == '(') {
                                         tc = TC_FUNCTION;
                                 } else {