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From
Gerrit Pape <pape@smarden.org>
Date
Nov 23, 2006, 10:16 UTC
Message-ID
<20061123101609.1711.qmail@8b73034525b1a6.315fe32.mid.smarden.org>

Hi, I don't think we can rely on sizeof(struct ...) to be the exact size of the struct as defined. As the selftests show, archive-zip doesn't work correctly on Debian/arm

 http://buildd.debian.org/fetch.cgi?&pkg=git-core&ver=1%3A1.4.4-1&arch=arm&stamp=1164122355&file=log

It's because sizeof(struct zip_local_header) is 32, zip_dir_header 48, and zip_dir_trailer 24, breaking the zip files. Compiling with -fpack-struct seemed to break other things, so I for now I ended up with this (not so nice) workaround.

Regards, Gerrit.
diff --git a/archive-zip.c b/archive-zip.c
index ae5572a..4fcda44 100644
--- a/archive-zip.c
+++ b/archive-zip.c
@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ static int write_zip_entry(const unsigne
 	}
 
 	/* make sure we have enough free space in the dictionary */
-	direntsize = sizeof(struct zip_dir_header) + pathlen;
+	direntsize = 46 + pathlen;
 	while (zip_dir_size < zip_dir_offset + direntsize) {
 		zip_dir_size += ZIP_DIRECTORY_MIN_SIZE;
 		zip_dir = xrealloc(zip_dir, zip_dir_size);
@@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ static int write_zip_entry(const unsigne
 	copy_le16(dirent.attr1, 0);
 	copy_le32(dirent.attr2, attr2);
 	copy_le32(dirent.offset, zip_offset);
-	memcpy(zip_dir + zip_dir_offset, &dirent, sizeof(struct zip_dir_header));
-	zip_dir_offset += sizeof(struct zip_dir_header);
+	memcpy(zip_dir + zip_dir_offset, &dirent, 46);
+	zip_dir_offset += 46;
 	memcpy(zip_dir + zip_dir_offset, path, pathlen);
 	zip_dir_offset += pathlen;
 	zip_dir_entries++;
@@ -251,8 +251,8 @@ static int write_zip_entry(const unsigne
 	copy_le32(header.size, uncompressed_size);
 	copy_le16(header.filename_length, pathlen);
 	copy_le16(header.extra_length, 0);
-	write_or_die(1, &header, sizeof(struct zip_local_header));
-	zip_offset += sizeof(struct zip_local_header);
+	write_or_die(1, &header, 30);
+	zip_offset += 30;
 	write_or_die(1, path, pathlen);
 	zip_offset += pathlen;
 	if (compressed_size > 0) {
@@ -282,7 +282,7 @@ static void write_zip_trailer(const unsi
 	copy_le16(trailer.comment_length, sha1 ? 40 : 0);
 
 	write_or_die(1, zip_dir, zip_dir_offset);
-	write_or_die(1, &trailer, sizeof(struct zip_dir_trailer));
+	write_or_die(1, &trailer, 22);
 	if (sha1)
 		write_or_die(1, sha1_to_hex(sha1), 40);
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  4. Andy WhitcroftNov 23, 2006
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  6. Erik MouwNov 23, 2006
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  8. Andy WhitcroftNov 23, 2006
  9. René ScharfeNov 23, 2006
  10. Erik MouwNov 23, 2006
  11. Junio C HamanoNov 23, 2006
  12. archive-zip: don't use sizeof(struct ...)René Scharfe, Nov 23, 2006
  13. Gerrit PapeNov 24, 2006

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