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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	Pierre Habouzit <madcoder@debian.org>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] help: Add a missing OPT_END().
Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 21:34:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vk5jgan9e.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080402034430.GA10360@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Tue, 1 Apr 2008 23:44:31 -0400")

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 05:47:41AM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:
>
>> 	Some comments in "parse-options.h" say it is needed,
>> 	though I did not see a crash without it.
>
> There was no particular reason I didn't put it in; I just didn't know
> about it. So ack from me, assuming it is supposed to be there.

parse-options.c::parse_short_opt() and parse_long_opt() has this loop:

	for (; options->type != OPTION_END; options++) {
		...
	}

So whatever happens to come after builtin_help_options[] may be read from
by this loop when you do not have OPTION_END.

      reply	other threads:[~2008-04-02  4:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-02  3:47 [PATCH] help: Add a missing OPT_END() Christian Couder
2008-04-02  3:44 ` Jeff King
2008-04-02  4:34   ` Junio C Hamano [this message]

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