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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Cc: Jacek Masiulaniec <jacekm@dobremiasto.net>,
	git@vger.kernel.org, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] status: store format option as an int
Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2011 02:22:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110416062233.GA28853@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110416052704.GA10807@elie>

On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 12:27:04AM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

> It is unsafe to pass a pointer to a value of enumerated type to
> OPT_SET_INT (as v1.7.0-rc0~137^2~14, 2009-0905) does, since it might
> have the wrong alignment or width (C99 only says "Each enumerated type
> shall be compatible with char, a signed integer type, or an unsigned
> integer type.  The choice of type is implementation-defined, but shall
> be capable of representing the values of all the members of the
> enumeration.)
> 
> Probably this didn't come up in practice because by default GCC uses
> an 'int' to represent small enums unless passed -fshort-enums (except
> on certain architectures where -fshort-enums is the default).
> 
> Noticed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>

If by "noticed by" you mean "mentioned but was completely unaware of the
significance of what he was saying", then yes. :)

Now that you mention it, though, I was reminded that we had run across
something similar before. And I think it was this:

  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/144858

Your fix looks sane. I don't think we can do anything more clever on the
parse-options side.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-04-16  6:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-04-15 21:34 git status -s -v: no override Jacek Masiulaniec
2011-04-16  0:09 ` Jeff King
2011-04-16  0:45   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-16  1:37     ` Jeff King
2011-04-16  5:27       ` [PATCH] status: store format option as an int Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-16  5:29         ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-16  6:14           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-04-16  6:28             ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-04-16  6:22         ` Jeff King [this message]
2011-05-15  4:05         ` [PATCH resend] " Jonathan Nieder

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