Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: get rid of useless x < 0 comparison on an enum member

On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 19:55, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:

Agreed, which is why I submitted this patch.

Also if this is the sort of thing we'd like to guard against we should be discussing it more generally. We have a bunch of occurances where we'd probably break down if someone manually assigned -1 to an enum variable:

    $ git grep -E -A1 'enum.*\{' | grep -B1 '=.*0' | grep enum
    builtin/branch.c:enum color_branch {
    builtin/branch.c:static enum merge_filter {
    builtin/fetch-pack.c:enum ack_type {
    builtin/fetch.c:enum {
    builtin/grep.c: enum {
    builtin/mv.c:   enum update_mode { BOTH = 0, WORKING_DIRECTORY,
INDEX } *modes;
    builtin/remote.c:enum {
    builtin/remote.c:       enum {
    cache.h:enum rebase_setup_type {
    cache.h:enum push_default_type {
    cache.h:enum object_creation_mode {
    cache.h:enum sharedrepo {
    cache.h:enum date_mode {
    cache.h:        enum {
    convert.h:enum safe_crlf {
    convert.h:enum auto_crlf {
    diff.h:enum diff_words_type {
    diff.h:enum color_diff {
    dir.c:enum exist_status {
    dir.h:  enum {
    grep.h:enum grep_header_field {
    http-push.c:enum dav_header_flag {
    imap-send.c:enum CAPABILITY {
    log-tree.c:enum decoration_type {
    merge-recursive.c:enum rename_type {
    merge-recursive.h:      enum {
    notes-merge.h:  enum {
    remote.h:enum match_refs_flags {
    rerere.c:       enum {
    unpack-trees.h:enum unpack_trees_error_types {
    wt-status.h:enum color_wt_status {