On Fri, Jul 3, 2015 at 11:51 PM, Junio C Hamano <gits...@pobox.com> wrote:
> Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclo...@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Once we know the number of objects in the input pack, we allocate an
>> array of nr_objects of struct delta_entry. On x86-64, this struct is
>> 32 bytes long. The union delta_base, which is part of struct
>> delta_entry, provides enough space to store either ofs-delta (8 bytes)
>> or ref-delta (20 bytes).
>
> Sorry for responding to a patch 7000+ messages ago, but some kind
> folks at Google were puzzled by this code, and I think they found a
> small bug.
>
>> static void fix_unresolved_deltas(struct sha1file *f, int nr_unresolved)
>> {
>> - struct delta_entry **sorted_by_pos;
>> + struct ref_delta_entry **sorted_by_pos;
>> int i, n = 0;
>>
>> /*
>> @@ -1282,28 +1344,25 @@ static void fix_unresolved_deltas(struct sha1file
>> *f, int nr_unresolved)
>> * resolving deltas in the same order as their position in the pack.
>> */
>> sorted_by_pos = xmalloc(nr_unresolved * sizeof(*sorted_by_pos));
>> - for (i = 0; i < nr_deltas; i++) {
>> - if (objects[deltas[i].obj_no].real_type != OBJ_REF_DELTA)
>> - continue;
>> - sorted_by_pos[n++] = &deltas[i];
>> - }
>> + for (i = 0; i < nr_ref_deltas; i++)
>> + sorted_by_pos[n++] = &ref_deltas[i];
>> qsort(sorted_by_pos, n, sizeof(*sorted_by_pos), delta_pos_compare);
>
> You allocate an array of nr_unresolved (which is the sum of
> nr_ref_deltas and nr_ofs_deltas in the new world order with patch)
> entries, fill only the first nr_ref_deltas entries of it, and then
> sort that first n (= nr_ref_deltas) entries. The qsort and the
> subsequent loop only looks at the first n entries, so nothing is
> filling or reading these nr_ofs_deltas entres at the end.
>
> I do not see any wrong behaviour other than temporary wastage of
> nr_ofs_deltas pointers that would be caused by this, but this
> allocation is misleading.
>
> Also, the old code before this change had to use 'i' and 'n' because
> some of the things we see in the (old) deltas[] array we scanned
> with 'i' would not make it into the sorted_by_pos[] array in the old
> world order, but now because you have only ref delta in a separate
> ref_deltas[] array, they increment lock&step. That also puzzled me
> while re-reading this code.
>
> Perhaps something like this is needed?
Yeah I can see the confusion when reading the code without checking
its history. You probably want to kill the argument nr_unresolved too
because it's not needed anymore after your patch.
So what's the bug you mentioned? All I got from the above was wastage
and confusion, no bug.
--
Duy
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