Re: [PATCH v2 02/10] xdiff: use ssize_t for dstart/dend, make them last in xdfile_t

From

PWPhillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>

Date

Nov 6, 2025, 09:55 UTC

Message-ID

<14496da7-3d9e-4e07-8893-0a5414fbbe70@gmail.com>

In-Reply-To

<9197903add26e5b8af0bb2dd25bf115670e18e8c.1761776388.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>

Hi Ezekiel

On 29/10/2025 22:19, Ezekiel Newren via GitGitGadget wrote:

> From: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
> 
> ssize_t is appropriate for dstart and dend because they both describe
> positive or negative offsets relative to a pointer.

> A future patch will move these fields to a different struct. Moving
> them to the end of xdfile_t now, means the field order of xdfile_t will
> be disturbed less.

I'm not sure why that matters but I also don't object

Thanks

Phillip

> Signed-off-by: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
> ---
>   xdiff/xtypes.h | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/xdiff/xtypes.h b/xdiff/xtypes.h
> index f145abba3e..7c8c057bca 100644
> --- a/xdiff/xtypes.h
> +++ b/xdiff/xtypes.h
> @@ -47,10 +47,10 @@ typedef struct s_xrecord {
>   typedef struct s_xdfile {
>   	xrecord_t *recs;
>   	long nrec;
> -	long dstart, dend;
>   	bool *changed;
>   	long *rindex;
>   	long nreff;
> +	ptrdiff_t dstart, dend;
>   } xdfile_t;
>   
>   typedef struct s_xdfenv {