Re: /* compiler workaround */ - what was the issue?

[Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>]

On 06/05/16 21:21, Ramsay Jones wrote:
> On 06/05/16 19:54, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com> writes:
>>
[snip]

> I still can't get gcc to complain, e.g. (on top of above):
> 
>   $ git diff
>   diff --git a/builtin/rev-list.c b/builtin/rev-list.c
>   index deae1f3..845fcdc 100644
>   --- a/builtin/rev-list.c
>   +++ b/builtin/rev-list.c
>   @@ -377,7 +377,7 @@ int cmd_rev_list(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>                   mark_edges_uninteresting(&revs, show_edge);
>    
>           if (bisect_list) {
>   -               int reaches = 0, all = 0;
>   +               int reaches, all;
>    
>                   revs.commits = find_bisection(revs.commits, &reaches, &all,
>                                                 bisect_find_all);
>   $ rm builtin/rev-list.o
>   $ make V=1 CFLAGS='-g -O3 -Wall -Wextra -Wuninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter' builtin/rev-list.o
>   cc -o builtin/rev-list.o -c -MF builtin/.depend/rev-list.o.d -MQ builtin/rev-list.o -MMD -MP  -g -O3 -Wall -Wextra -Wuninitialized -Wno-unused-parameter -I. -DHAVE_ALLOCA_H -DUSE_CURL_FOR_IMAP_SEND  -DHAVE_PATHS_H -DHAVE_DEV_TTY -DXDL_FAST_HASH -DHAVE_CLOCK_GETTIME -DHAVE_CLOCK_MONOTONIC -DHAVE_GETDELIM -DSHA1_HEADER='<openssl/sha.h>'  -DNO_STRLCPY -DNO_MKSTEMPS -DSHELL_PATH='"/bin/sh"'  builtin/rev-list.c
>   In file included from ./cache.h:4:0,
>                    from builtin/rev-list.c:1:
>   ./git-compat-util.h: In function ‘xsize_t’:
>   ./git-compat-util.h:838:10: warning: comparison between signed and unsigned integer expressions [-Wsign-compare]
>     if (len > (size_t) len)
>             ^
>   $ 

BTW, another patch that I have hanging around ... this time the
patch below was built on master from a couple of years ago (so,
I haven't bothered to rebase it, but you should get the idea):

ATB,
Ramsay Jones

-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] git-compat-util.h: xsize_t(): avoid signed comparison warnings

Signed-off-by: Ramsay Jones <ramsay@ramsayjones.plus.com>
---
 git-compat-util.h | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index c07e0c1..3a9cf6c 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -838,9 +838,10 @@ static inline char *xstrdup_or_null(const char *str)
 
 static inline size_t xsize_t(off_t len)
 {
-	if (len > (size_t) len)
+	size_t r = (size_t)len;
+	if (len != (off_t)r)
 		die("Cannot handle files this big");
-	return (size_t)len;
+	return r;
 }
 
 __attribute__((format (printf, 3, 4)))
-- 
2.8.0