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From: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp•fr>
To: Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org, Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail•com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] config: add hashtable for config parsing & retrieval
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2014 13:55:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <vpqtx7bn8ln.fsf@anie.imag.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1403518300-23053-3-git-send-email-tanayabh@gmail.com> (Tanay Abhra's message of "Mon, 23 Jun 2014 03:11:39 -0700")

Tanay Abhra <tanayabh@gmail•com> writes:

> +/* for NULL values, 'util' for each `string_list_item` is flagged as 1 */

It's a void *, so just saying that it is flagged as 1 does not say how
it's encoded. How about "... is an 'int *' pointing to the value 1".

And actually, you can save one malloc by encoding the value directly in
the util pointer itself like

#define NULL_FLAG (void *)1

	item->util = NULL_FLAG;

I find this a bit ugly, but I think Git already uses this in a few
places (git grep 'void \*) *1' for examples).

Or you can use a pointer to a single static value:

static const int boolean_null_flag = 1; // Or even without = 1.

and then

	item->util = &boolean_null_flag;

-- 
Matthieu Moy
http://www-verimag.imag.fr/~moy/

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-23 11:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-23 10:11 [PATCH v3 0/3] git config cache & special querying api utilizing the cache Tanay Abhra
2014-06-23 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] string-list: add string_list initialiser helper functions Tanay Abhra
2014-06-23 12:36   ` Torsten Bögershausen
2014-06-23 13:19     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-06-23 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] config: add hashtable for config parsing & retrieval Tanay Abhra
2014-06-23 11:55   ` Matthieu Moy [this message]
2014-06-24 12:06     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-06-25 20:25       ` Karsten Blees
2014-06-23 14:57   ` Ramsay Jones
2014-06-23 16:20     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-06-24 15:32       ` Ramsay Jones
2014-06-26 16:15         ` Matthieu Moy
2014-06-23 23:25     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-24  7:23       ` Tanay Abhra
2014-06-25 18:21         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-24  7:25       ` Tanay Abhra
2014-06-24 15:57       ` Ramsay Jones
2014-06-25 18:13         ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-25 20:23           ` Karsten Blees
2014-06-25 20:53             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-26 17:37           ` Matthieu Moy
2014-06-26 19:00             ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-26 19:19               ` Karsten Blees
2014-06-26 21:21                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-27  8:19                   ` Karsten Blees
2014-06-27  8:19               ` Matthieu Moy
2014-06-27 17:13                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-23 23:14   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-24 12:21     ` Tanay Abhra
2014-06-26 16:27       ` Matthieu Moy
2014-06-25 21:44   ` Karsten Blees
2014-06-26 16:43   ` Matthieu Moy
2014-06-23 10:11 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] test-config: add usage examples for non-callback query functions Tanay Abhra
2014-06-25 11:19   ` Eric Sunshine
2014-06-26  8:40     ` Tanay Abhra

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