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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>
To: Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>
Cc: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com>,
	Wincent Colaiuta <win@wincent.com>, David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>,
	Timo Hirvonen <tihirvon@gmail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make strbuf_cmp inline, constify its arguments and  optimize it a bit
Date: Mon, 08 Oct 2007 10:54:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <82k5py6l6f.fsf@mid.bfk.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071008072312.GA22552@artemis.corp> (Pierre Habouzit's message of "Mon, 08 Oct 2007 09:23:12 +0200")

* Pierre Habouzit:

>> So I think the last line can just be:
>> 
>>    return a->len - b->len;
>
>   Won't work because ->len are size_t and return value is int, so on 64
> bits platform, this has chances to overflow.

Nit: It can overflow on 32-bit, too.

And "int len" in the first line of the function body should be
"size_t len".

Moving that to a compare_int/compare_size_t function should help;
AFAIK there's no short idiom which does the job.

-- 
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  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-08  8:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-24  9:25 mini-refactor in rerere.c Pierre Habouzit
     [not found] ` <1190625904-22808-2-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org>
     [not found]   ` <1190625904-22808-3-git-send-email-madcoder@debian.org>
2007-09-24 10:38     ` [PATCH 2/2] Make builtin-rerere use of strbuf nicer and more efficient Johannes Schindelin
2007-09-26  0:31     ` Junio C Hamano
2007-09-26  8:41       ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-07 14:00   ` [PATCH] Make strbuf_cmp inline, constify its arguments and optimize it a bit Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 14:24     ` Timo Hirvonen
2007-10-07 14:39       ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-07 15:46         ` Miles Bader
2007-10-07 16:07           ` David Kastrup
2007-10-07 21:54             ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 22:12               ` Wincent Colaiuta
2007-10-07 22:31                 ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08  1:45                   ` Miles Bader
2007-10-08  7:23                     ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-08  8:54                       ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2007-10-08 18:51                         ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 16:11         ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 16:18           ` Timo Hirvonen
2007-10-07 18:25             ` Johannes Schindelin
2007-10-07 16:54           ` Pierre Habouzit
2007-10-07 14:24     ` David Kastrup
2007-10-07 16:10       ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-07 16:27         ` David Kastrup
2007-10-07 21:57           ` Alex Riesen
2007-10-08  2:19             ` Jeff King

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