On Sat, Nov 24, 2018 at 08:33:37PM +0100, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 05 2018, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > > On Wed, Sep 05 2018, Eric Sunshine wrote:
[] > > SunCC used to be ahead of GCC & Clang when it came to certain classes of > > warnings, but e.g. now everything it complains about is because it > > doesn't understand C as well, e.g. we have quite a few compile warnings > > due to code like this, which it claims is unreachable (but isn't): > > https://github.com/git/git/blob/v2.19.0-rc2/read-cache.c#L950-L955 > Wait a second - even if the compiler claims something (wrong)... there a still 1+1/2 questions from my side: int verify_path(const char *path, unsigned mode) { char c; ^ /* Q1: should "c" be initialized like this: */ char c = *path; if (has_dos_drive_prefix(path)) return 0; goto inside; ^^^^^^^^^^^^ /* Q2: and why do we need the "goto" here ? */ for (;;) { if (!c) return 1; if (is_dir_sep(c)) { inside:
