From 8c4e45d4a773a2fa5ccfa9255e23270c9b2a6583 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: falkTX <falktx@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 23:37:09 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow pre-allocated buffer in String class

---
 distrho/extra/String.hpp | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/distrho/extra/String.hpp b/distrho/extra/String.hpp
index 6cf96d46..8f824f30 100644
--- a/distrho/extra/String.hpp
+++ b/distrho/extra/String.hpp
@@ -54,11 +54,20 @@ public:
     /*
      * Simple char string.
      */
-    explicit String(char* const strBuf) noexcept
+    explicit String(char* const strBuf, const bool copyData = true) noexcept
         : fBuffer(_null()),
           fBufferLen(0)
     {
-        _dup(strBuf);
+        if (copyData || strBuf == nullptr)
+        {
+            _dup(strBuf);
+        }
+        else
+        {
+            fBuffer    = strBuf;
+            fBufferLen = std::strlen(strBuf);
+        }
+
     }
 
     /*