[PATCH 5/6] test-read-cache: drop namelen variable

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Sep 5, 2019, 22:54 UTC
Message-ID: <20190905225431.GE25657@sigill.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <20190905224859.GA28660@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Early in the function we set "namelen = strlen(name)" if "name" is non-NULL. Later, we use "namelen" only if "name" is non-NULL. However, it's hard to immediately see this, and it seems to confuse gcc 9.2.1 (with "-flto" interestingly, though all of the involved logic is in inline functions; it also triggers when building with ASan).

Let's simplify the code and remove the variable entirely. There's only one use of namelen anyway, so we can just call strlen() then. It's true this is in a loop, so we might execute strlen() more often. But:

  - this is test code that only ever loops twice in our test suite (we
    do loop 1000 times in a t/perf test, but without using this option).

  - a decent compiler ought to be able to hoist that out of the loop
    anyway (though I wouldn't count on gcc 9.2.1 doing so!)

Reported-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
---
 t/helper/test-read-cache.c | 5 ++---
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/t/helper/test-read-cache.c b/t/helper/test-read-cache.c
index 7e79b555de..244977a29b 100644
--- a/t/helper/test-read-cache.c
+++ b/t/helper/test-read-cache.c
@@ -4,11 +4,10 @@
 
 int cmd__read_cache(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
-	int i, cnt = 1, namelen;
+	int i, cnt = 1;
 	const char *name = NULL;
 
 	if (argc > 1 && skip_prefix(argv[1], "--print-and-refresh=", &name)) {
-		namelen = strlen(name);
 		argc--;
 		argv++;
 	}
@@ -24,7 +23,7 @@ int cmd__read_cache(int argc, const char **argv)
 
 			refresh_index(&the_index, REFRESH_QUIET,
 				      NULL, NULL, NULL);
-			pos = index_name_pos(&the_index, name, namelen);
+			pos = index_name_pos(&the_index, name, strlen(name));
 			if (pos < 0)
 				die("%s not in index", name);
 			printf("%s is%s up to date\n", name,

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