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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Marat Radchenko <marat@slonopotamus.org>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash
Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 10:29:04 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2wqfcm6nj.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vtxago359.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Sat, 29 Mar 2014 19:01:54 -0700")

Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:

> As OPT_SET_PTR() is about setting the pointer value to intptr_t defval,
> a follow-up patch on top of this fix (see attached) may not be a bad
> thing to have, but that patch alone will not fix this issue without
> dropping the unneeded and unwanted cast to unsigned long.

Wouldn't it make sense to change defval into a union to avoid the cast?
(The intptr_t type may be too narrow for other values to be put there.)

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-30  8:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-28 12:04 [PATCH] MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options Marat Radchenko
2014-03-28 18:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-29 19:59   ` [PATCH v2] MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash Marat Radchenko
2014-03-29 20:09 ` [PATCH v3] " Marat Radchenko
2014-03-29 21:34   ` Andreas Schwab
2014-03-29 22:17     ` René Scharfe
2014-03-30  2:01   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-30  8:29     ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-03-31 21:09       ` Jeff King
2014-03-30 11:08     ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Take four on fixing OPT_SET_PTR issues Marat Radchenko
2014-03-30 11:08       ` [PATCH v4 1/3] MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash Marat Radchenko
2014-03-30 11:08       ` [PATCH v4 2/3] parse-options: add cast to correct pointer type to OPT_SET_PTR Marat Radchenko
2014-03-31 17:16         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-30 11:08       ` [PATCH v4 3/3] parse-options: remove unused OPT_SET_PTR Marat Radchenko
2014-03-31 17:23       ` [PATCH v4 0/3] Take four on fixing OPT_SET_PTR issues Junio C Hamano
2014-03-31 21:07         ` Jeff King
2014-03-31 22:54           ` Junio C Hamano

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