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Re: git-grep Bus Error

From
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Mar 9, 2009, 01:11 UTC
Message-ID
<7vtz63ijoz.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To
<20090308234141.GJ12880@zoy.org>
Sam Hocevar <sam@zoy.org> writes:
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> On Sun, Mar 08, 2009, Brian Gernhardt wrote:
>
>> >			printf( "%d %d %d",
>> >				  match.rm_so, match.rm_eo,
>> >				  match.rm_eo - match.rm_so );
>> 
>> .gitignore:0 0 3\033[31m\033[1m(nugit
>> .mailmap:23 0 26(null)\033[31m\033[1m(nugit-shortlog to fix a few  
>> botched name translations-shortlog to fix a few botched name  
>> translations
>> 
>> And now I'm baffled.  Apparently my computer thinks 0 - 0 == 3 and 0 -  
>> 23 == 26.
>
>    rm_so and rm_eo are ints on Linux but off_t's on Darwin, hence
> probably int64_t's here. You should cast the arguments.

That is a very good point. In fact, "git grep -n -e 'printf.*%\.\*s'" reveals that many existing call sites to this form casts the precision argument explicitly to "int".

Brian, would this patch help?
 grep.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
index cace1c8..dcdbd5e 100644
--- a/grep.c
+++ b/grep.c
@@ -490,9 +490,9 @@ static void show_line(struct grep_opt *opt, char *bol, char *eol,
 		*eol = '\0';
 		while (next_match(opt, bol, eol, ctx, &match, eflags)) {
 			printf("%.*s%s%.*s%s",
-			       match.rm_so, bol,
+			       (int) match.rm_so, bol,
 			       opt->color_match,
-			       match.rm_eo - match.rm_so, bol + match.rm_so,
+			       (int)(match.rm_eo - match.rm_so), bol + match.rm_so,
 			       GIT_COLOR_RESET);
 			bol += match.rm_eo;
 			rest -= match.rm_eo;
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  1. Brian GernhardtMar 8, 2009
  2. Sam HocevarMar 8, 2009
  3. Brian GernhardtMar 9, 2009
  4. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2009
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2009
  6. Brian GernhardtMar 9, 2009
  7. grep: cast printf %.*s "precision" argument explicitly to intJunio C Hamano, Mar 9, 2009
  8. Brian GernhardtMar 9, 2009
  9. Junio C HamanoMar 9, 2009

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