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Re: [PATCH v3] MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crash

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Mar 30, 2014, 08:29 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> As OPT_SET_PTR() is about setting the pointer value to intptr_t defval,
> a follow-up patch on top of this fix (see attached) may not be a bad
> thing to have, but that patch alone will not fix this issue without
> dropping the unneeded and unwanted cast to unsigned long.

Wouldn't it make sense to change defval into a union to avoid the cast? (The intptr_t type may be too narrow for other values to be put there.)

Andreas.
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Message 8 of 17 in “MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options”
  1. MSVC: fix t0040-parse-optionsMarat Radchenko, Mar 28, 2014
  2. Junio C HamanoMar 28, 2014
  3. MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crashMarat Radchenko, Mar 29, 2014
  4. MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crashMarat Radchenko, Mar 29, 2014
  5. Andreas SchwabMar 29, 2014
  6. René ScharfeMar 29, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoMar 30, 2014
  8. Andreas SchwabMar 30, 2014
  9. Jeff KingMar 31, 2014
  10. 0/3 Take four on fixing OPT_SET_PTR issuesMarat Radchenko, Mar 30, 2014
  11. 1/3 MSVC: fix t0040-parse-options crashMarat Radchenko, Mar 30, 2014
  12. 2/3 parse-options: add cast to correct pointer type to OPT_SET_PTRMarat Radchenko, Mar 30, 2014
  13. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2014
  14. 3/3 parse-options: remove unused OPT_SET_PTRMarat Radchenko, Mar 30, 2014
  15. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2014
  16. Jeff KingMar 31, 2014
  17. Junio C HamanoMar 31, 2014

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