Re: [PATCH] http.postbuffer: make a size_t

["Torsten Bögershausen" <tboegi@web.de>]

On 30/03/17 22:29, David Turner wrote:
> Unfortunately, in order to push some large repos, the http postbuffer
> must sometimes exceed two gigabytes.  On a 64-bit system, this is OK:
> we just malloc a larger buffer.
>
> Signed-off-by: David Turner <dturner@twosigma.com>
> ---
>  cache.h  |  1 +
>  config.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++
>  http.c   |  2 +-
>  3 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
> index fbdf7a815a..a8c1b65db0 100644
> --- a/cache.h
> +++ b/cache.h
> @@ -1900,6 +1900,7 @@ extern int git_parse_maybe_bool(const char *);
>  extern int git_config_int(const char *, const char *);
>  extern int64_t git_config_int64(const char *, const char *);
>  extern unsigned long git_config_ulong(const char *, const char *);
> +extern size_t git_config_size_t(const char *, const char *);
>  extern int git_config_bool_or_int(const char *, const char *, int *);
>  extern int git_config_bool(const char *, const char *);
>  extern int git_config_maybe_bool(const char *, const char *);
> diff --git a/config.c b/config.c
> index 1a4d85537b..7b706cf27a 100644
> --- a/config.c
> +++ b/config.c
> @@ -834,6 +834,15 @@ int git_parse_ulong(const char *value, unsigned long *ret)
>  	return 1;
>  }
>
> +static size_t git_parse_size_t(const char *value, unsigned long *ret)
> +{
> +	size_t tmp;
> +	if (!git_parse_signed(value, &tmp, maximum_unsigned_value_of_type(size_t)))
> +		return 0;
> +	*ret = tmp;
> +	return 1;
> +}
What is the return value here ?
Isn't it a size_t we want ?
(There was a recent discussion about "unsigned long" vs "size_t", which
  are the same on many systems, but not under Win64)
Would the following work ?

static int git_parse_size_t(const char *value, size_t *ret)
{
	if (!git_parse_signed(value, ret, maximum_unsigned_value_of_type(size_t)))
		return 0;
	return 1;
}

[]
> +size_t git_config_size_t(const char *name, const char *value)
> +{
> +	unsigned long ret;
> +	if (!git_parse_size_t(value, &ret))
> +		die_bad_number(name, value);
> +	return ret;
> +}
> +
Same here:
size_t git_config_size_t(const char *name, const char *value)
{
	size_t ret;
	if (!git_parse_size_t(value, &ret))
		die_bad_number(name, value);
	return ret;
}