Re: [PATCH 2/3] cached-sha1-map: refactoring hash traversal code

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

"Geoffrey Irving" <irving@naml.us> writes:

> From c4e60c28fe66985ac8224da832589c982010744e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Geoffrey Irving <irving@naml.us>
> Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2008 19:47:22 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH 2/3] cached-sha1-map: refactoring hash traversal code
>
> Pulling common code from get_cached_sha1_entry and set_cached_sha1_entry
> into static find_helper function.
> ---

Sign-off?

>  cached-sha1-map.c |   68 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
>  1 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)

The refactoring is good, and it should have been that way from the
beginning.  Please don't send in "introduce foo.c [1/N]", "oops, initial
version of foo.c was crap, here is a fixup [2/N]".

> diff --git a/cached-sha1-map.c b/cached-sha1-map.c
> index e363745..147c7a2 100644
> --- a/cached-sha1-map.c
> +++ b/cached-sha1-map.c
> @@ -140,43 +144,47 @@ int get_cached_sha1_entry(struct cached_sha1_map *cache,
>  	mask = cache->size - 1;
>
>  	for (i = get_hash_index(key) & mask; ; i = (i+1) & mask) {
> -		if (!hashcmp(key, cache->entries[i].key)) {
> -			hashcpy(value, cache->entries[i].value);
> -			return 0;
> -		} else if (is_null_sha1(cache->entries[i].key))
> -			return -1;
> +		if (!hashcmp(key, cache->entries[i].key))
> +			return i;
> +		else if (is_null_sha1(cache->entries[i].key))
> +			return ~i;
>  	}
>  }
>
> +int get_cached_sha1_entry(struct cached_sha1_map *cache,
> +	const unsigned char *key, unsigned char *value)
> +{
> +	long i = find_helper(cache, key);
> +	if(i < 0)
> +		return -1;

Does this have to be extern?

If you are designing an API from scratch, and if you want a long, use it
consistently.  Do not demote an int to shorter int in a callchain
unnecessarily.