Re: [PATCH v2 00/18] Introduce rust: In xdiff

From: Ezekiel Newren <ezekielnewren@gmail.com>
Date: Sep 22, 2025, 18:33 UTC
Message-ID: <CAH=ZcbA5hAM9kmO410KzVW7RXWWiwX2oJk6GGPP+6oVYatRVOw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <xmqqqzvytkqi.fsf@gitster.g>

On Mon, Sep 22, 2025 at 12:17 PM Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

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> > I just tried this in Rust and it turns out you actually can use u16 as
> > a struct field name. My bad. I think that's a bad idea and should be
> > discouraged though.
>
> That's a great news.
>
> It means we do not have to worry about existing variables and
> structure member names at all while working with cbindgen.

You've convinced me that we shouldn't use Rust type names in C. I've already refactored my code to use [ui]int(8|16|32|64)_t in part 2 of my xdiff cleanup.

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