> On 07 Mar 2018, at 20:59, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
>
> lars.schnei...@autodesk.com writes:
>
>> +static int check_roundtrip(const char* enc_name)
>
> The asterisk sticks to the variable, not type.
Argh. I need to put this check into Travis CI ;-)
>> +{
>> + /*
>> + * check_roundtrip_encoding contains a string of space and/or
>> + * comma separated encodings (eg. "UTF-16, ASCII, CP1125").
>> + * Search for the given encoding in that string.
>> + */
>> + const char *found = strcasestr(check_roundtrip_encoding, enc_name);
>> + const char *next;
>> + int len;
>> + if (!found)
>> + return 0;
>> + next = found + strlen(enc_name);
>> + len = strlen(check_roundtrip_encoding);
>> + return (found && (
>> + /*
>> + * check that the found encoding is at the
>> + * beginning of check_roundtrip_encoding or
>> + * that it is prefixed with a space or comma
>> + */
>> + found == check_roundtrip_encoding || (
>> + found > check_roundtrip_encoding &&
>> + (*(found-1) == ' ' || *(found-1) == ',')
>> + )
>
> The second line is unneeded, as we know a non-NULL found either
> points at check_roundtrip_encoding or somewhere to the right, and
> the first test already checked the "points exactly at" case.
Eric objected that too [1], but noted the documentation value:
Although the 'found > check_roundtrip_encoding' expression is
effectively dead code in this case, it does document that the
programmer didn't just blindly use '*(found-1)' without taking
boundary conditions into consideration.
(It's dead code because, at this point, we know that strcasestr()
didn't return NULL and we know that 'found' doesn't equal
'check_roundtrip_encoding', therefore it _must_ be greater than
'check_roundtrip_encoding'.)
[1]
https://public-inbox.org/git/CAPig+cR81J3fTOtrgAumAs=rc5hqyffsmeb-ru-yf_ahfub...@mail.gmail.com/
Although the line is unnecessary, I felt it is safer/easier to
understand and maintain. Since both of you tripped over it, I will
remove it though.
> This is defined to be a comma separated list, so it is unnecessary
> to accept <cre,en> == <"FOO, SHIFT-JIS, BAR", "SHIFT-JIS">; if you
> allow SP, perhaps "isspace(found[-1]) || found[-1] == ','" to also
> allow HT may also be appropriate.
I don't think HT makes too much sense. However, isspace() is nice
and I will use it. Being more permissive on the inputs should hurt.
> I think "comma or whitespace
> separated list" is fine; in any case, the comment near the beginning
> of this function does not match new text in Documentation/config.txt
> added by this patch.
Nice catch. Will fix.
Thanks,
Lars
