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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Thomas Rast <tr@thomasrast.ch>,
	"brian m. carlson" <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Jens Lehmann <Jens.Lehmann@web.de>,
	John Keeping <john@keeping.me.uk>,
	Guillaume Gelin <contact@ramnes.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mv: prevent mismatched data when ignoring errors.
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 15:31:26 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqtxav5ebl.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53270FC2.2030701@alum.mit.edu> (Michael Haggerty's message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:07:46 +0100")

Michael Haggerty <mhagger@alum.mit.edu> writes:

> I had recently been thinking along the same lines.  In many of the
> potential callers that I noticed, ALLOC_GROW() was used immediately
> before making space in the array for a new element.  So I suggest
> something more like
>
> +#define MOVE_DOWN(array, nr, at, count)	\
> +	memmove((array) + (at) + (count),		\
> +		(array) + (at),				\
> +		sizeof((array)[0]) * ((nr) - (at)))
> +#define ALLOC_INSERT_GAP(array, nr, at, count, alloc)		     \
> +	do {							     \
> +		ALLOC_GROW((array), (nr) + (count), (alloc));        \
> +		MOVE_DOWN((array), (nr), (at), (count));	     \
> +	} while (0)
>
> Also, count==1 is so frequent that this special case might deserve its
> own macro pair.

Yeah, probably.

> I'm not inspired by these macro names, though.

Me neither, about ups and downs.

Peff's suggestion to name these around the concept of "gap" sounded
sensible.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-03-18 22:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-08 16:23 git 1.9.0 segfault Guillaume Gelin
2014-03-08 16:46 ` brian m. carlson
2014-03-08 18:12   ` John Keeping
2014-03-08 18:35     ` [PATCH] builtin/mv: fix out of bounds write John Keeping
2014-03-08 19:15       ` brian m. carlson
2014-03-08 19:29         ` [PATCH v2] " John Keeping
2014-03-08 19:21       ` [PATCH] mv: prevent mismatched data when ignoring errors brian m. carlson
2014-03-11  1:56         ` Jeff King
2014-03-11  2:00           ` brian m. carlson
2014-03-11 21:45         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-12 23:21           ` brian m. carlson
2014-03-15 16:05         ` Thomas Rast
2014-03-16  2:00           ` Jeff King
2014-03-16 21:20             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-17  6:33               ` Junio C Hamano
2014-03-17 15:07                 ` Michael Haggerty
2014-03-17 19:06                   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-03-17 22:04                     ` Jeff King
2014-03-18 22:31                   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-03-15 18:56         ` [PATCH v2] " brian m. carlson
2014-03-16  2:00           ` Jeff King

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