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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com>
Cc: "Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox•com>,
	"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail•com>,
	git@vger•kernel.org, "Jim Meyering" <jim@meyering•net>,
	"Fredrik Gustafsson" <iveqy@iveqy•com>,
	"Andreas Schwab" <schwab@linux-m68k•org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on an enum member
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 13:48:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7vd3d31u4e.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111107213219.GA13537@elie.hsd1.il.comcast.net> (Jonathan Nieder's message of "Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:32:19 -0600")

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail•com> writes:

> So, the purpose of this patch was to work around this common bug in
> static analyzers.

I fail to see how it could be even considered a work around.

If you do not use static analyzers, you do not have to do such a change,
and the resulting code would (not the "negative" side, but the "positive"
side) catch real bugs when somebody screwes up and stuffs a bogus oob
value in p->field.

With the removal of the check, you _have_ to rely on static analyzers to
do the _right thing_, but if you have static analyzers that do the right
thing, you do not have to have such a workaround to begin with.

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 21:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-06 12:06 [PATCH 0/3] Fix code issues spotted by clang Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-06 12:06 ` [PATCH 1/3] apply: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on a size_t type Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-06 18:35   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-07 19:09     ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2011-11-06 12:06 ` [PATCH 2/3] diff/apply: cast variable in call to free() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-06 12:06 ` [PATCH 3/3] grep: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on an enum member Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-06 15:03   ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-07 12:42     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-07 13:12       ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-07 16:38         ` Jeff King
2011-11-07 18:24           ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-07 18:34             ` Jeff King
2011-11-07 18:55               ` Jeff King
2011-11-07 19:06                 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-07 20:13                 ` Andreas Schwab
2011-11-07 19:49   ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-07 21:18     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-11-07 21:32       ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-07 21:48         ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2011-11-07 22:21           ` Jonathan Nieder
2011-11-06 12:33 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fix code issues spotted by clang Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2011-11-08 16:05   ` Elijah Newren

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