From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2018 21:50:32 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 6/8] convert: check for detectable errors in UTF encodings
Message-ID: <xmqqfu5e8a53.fsf@gitster-ct.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <20180304201418.60958-7-lars.schneider@autodesk.com>

lars.schneider@autodesk.com writes:

> +static int validate_encoding(const char *path, const char *enc,
> +		      const char *data, size_t len, int die_on_error)
> +{
> +	if (!memcmp("UTF-", enc, 4)) {

Does the caller already know that enc is sufficiently long that
using memcmp is safe?