From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 23:37:52 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jun 2010, #02; Wed, 16)
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In-Reply-To: <0d059f457e2edc87093de2e0ea3c911a@ensimag.fr>

Clément Poulain <clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr> writes:

> A fix was proposed here:
> http://mid.gmane.org/1276610328-28532-1-git-send-email-axel.bonnet@ensimag.imag.fr

This one changes textconv_object() to take a pointer to ulong*; a caller
is changed to cast a long* down to that pointer (in fill_origin_blob);
that is shifting one type-punned pointer problem to another one, so I do
not think it is an improvement.

> http://mid.gmane.org/1276617028-5265-1-git-send-email-clement.poulain@ensimag.imag.fr

... and this depends on that.

The solution should be along the lines of what Jeff outlined in 

    Message-ID: <20100615110710.GA1682@sigill.intra.peff.net>

i.e.

    The only portable way in C to convert between types is by assignment. So
    you have to do:

      unsigned long foo;
      textconv_object(read_from, null_sha1, &buf.buf, &foo);
      buf.len = foo;