Subject: Re: [PATCH] Convert size datatype to size_t

From: Martin Koegler <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 9 Aug 2017 09:19:06 +0200

On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 11:04:20PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Martin Koegler <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> > From: Martin Koegler <[email-masked]>
> >
> > It changes the signature of the core object access function
> > including any other functions to assure a clean compile if
> > sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(unsigned long).
> 
> As https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/262463159 shows, unfortunately
> it turns out that things are not so simple X-<.  On Linux32, size_t
> is uint, which is the same size as ulong, but "%lu" is not appropriate
> for showing a size_t value.
> 
> So you are correct to say in the comment under three-dashes that
> there is much more to change in the codebase.

My patch is based on V2 of my "Fix delta integer overflows" patch [also changing the variable types].

I'll post a new version fixing the *printf issues.

The patch can't be splitted without causing compile errors, if sizeof(size_t) != sizeof(ulong).
Many variables are not changed to keep the patch small.

Regards,
Martin