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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 14:27:39 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160118192739.GA1009@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPig+cQXDn+iR29vKzSRAUBYgXzTiR5MykKAtvCcF0SE7J4kUg@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2016 at 06:19:30PM -0500, Eric Sunshine wrote:

> > +/*
> > + * If header is "author", match candidate against the regex /[Aa]uthor:? /,
> > + * and return a pointer to the remainder of the string in out_value.
> > + */
> > +static int match_ident_header(const char *candidate, const char *header,
> > +                             const char **out_value)
> > +{
> > +       const char *v;
> > +
> > +       if (tolower(*candidate++) != tolower(*header++))
> > +               return 0;
> 
> Presumably, this will never be invoked as match_ident_header("", "",
> ...) so we don't have to worry about it accessing beyond end-of-string
> when it gets past this conditional. Does it deserve an
> assert(*candidate) at the top of the function, though, or is that
> overkill?

Good point. It shouldn't happen (we will always feed a string literal),
but it never hurts to document assumptions with an assertion.

However, there is some reason to think this isn't the ideal function;
see the message I just posted elsewhere in the thread.

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-18 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-01-15 17:06 [PATCH 0/6] shortlog fixes and optimizations Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 1/6] shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin Jeff King
2016-01-15 23:19   ` Eric Sunshine
2016-01-18 19:27     ` Jeff King [this message]
2016-01-18 19:26   ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 19:55     ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-18 20:01       ` [PATCH v2 0/6] shortlog fixes and optimizations Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 1/6] shortlog: match both "Author:" and "author" on stdin Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 2/6] shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdin Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 3/6] shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:13           ` Jeff King
2016-01-18 23:04             ` Jeff King
2016-01-19  3:47               ` Junio C Hamano
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 4/6] shortlog: optimize "--summary" mode Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 5/6] shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalization Jeff King
2016-01-18 20:02         ` [PATCH 6/6] shortlog: optimize out useless string list Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:08 ` [PATCH 2/6] shortlog: use strbufs to read from stdin Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH 3/6] shortlog: replace hand-parsing of author with pretty-printer Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:09 ` [PATCH 4/6] shortlog: optimize "--summary" mode Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:10 ` [PATCH 5/6] shortlog: optimize out useless "<none>" normalization Jeff King
2016-01-15 17:10 ` [PATCH 6/6] shortlog: optimize out useless string list Jeff King
2016-01-15 22:11 ` [PATCH 0/6] shortlog fixes and optimizations Junio C Hamano

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