On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 8:10 PM, Eric Sunshine <sunsh...@sunshineco.com> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 9:18 AM, Duy Nguyen <pclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 8:33 PM, Christian Couder >> <christian.cou...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> To be compatible with the rest of the error handling in builtin/apply.c, >>> find_header() should return -1 instead of calling die(). >>> >>> Unfortunately find_header() already returns -1 when no header is found, >>> so let's make it return -2 instead in this case. >> >> I don't think this is a good way to go. Too many magic numbers. I >> don't have a better option though. Maybe returning names instead of >> numbers would help a bit. > > I suppose 'hdrsize' could signal this extra condition. For instance, > always return -1 on error, and set hdrsize to 0 for header not found > (unless 0 is a valid size?), and -1 for any other error. > > But perhaps that's getting too clever...
Yeah, I don't think it would make reading the patch simpler. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
