On Sun, Sep 29, 2019 at 3:37 AM CB Bailey <c...@hashpling.org> wrote: > > Previously, if the condition matched in the inner loop, the function > would null out the entry in the queue that that inner loop had reached > (q->queue[j] = NULL) and then break out of the inner loop. This meant > that the outer loop would skip over this entry (if (!p)). > > The change introduced seems to break out of both loops as soon as we > reach one match, whereas before other subsequent matches would be > considered and merged. Not only this, but the outer 'else' case for all > subsequent entries is skipped so the rest of the entries the original > queue are missing from 'outq'.
> I spent a bit of time trying to see if this change was user visible > which turned out to be unneeded as t4008-diff-break-rewrite.sh already > fails with this change for me in my environment, initially with this > test but also 3 other tests in this file. Thank you for reviewing this. I should have run `make test` myself before sending the patch; I do indeed see the same test failure that you saw. I will send a v4 of this patch with the label in the right place. -Alex
