Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] [PATCH] mimgw: remove Compiler Warnings

[Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>]

Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks for re-rolling, I think "Fix some compiler warnings" would be
> clearer than "Remove", also "integers" is misspelt.

Though "Fix" is a word with less information than other words we
could use.  The changes in the patch are primarily about mismatched
type, so perhaps

    mingw: use size_t insead of int for lengths
      
would make a better commit title.

I agree with everything you said including this part:

> It would also be helpful to explain in the commit message the changes
> to _ssize_t
>
>> +#ifdef _WIN64
>> +typedef __int64 _ssize_t;
>> +#else
>>   typedef long _ssize_t;
>> +#endif // _AMD64
>
> Please note that we do not use "//" comments so this should be "/*
> _WIN64 */" so that the comment matches the opening #ifdef
>
> Thanks for working on this

Thanks.