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Re: [PATCH v2 20/29] grep: remove redundant `regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED` assignments

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
May 15, 2017, 06:14 UTC
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Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
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> Remove redundant assignments to the "regflags" variable. There are no
> code paths that have previously set the regflags to anything, and
> certainly not to `|= REG_EXTENDED`.
>
> This code gave the impression that it had to reset its environment,
> but it doesn't. This dates back to the initial introduction of
> git-grep in commit 5010cb5fcc ("built-in "git grep"", 2006-04-30).

Back in 5010cb5fcc, we did do "opt.regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED" upon seeing "-G" on the command line and flipped the bit on upon seeing "-E", but I think that was perfectly sensible and it would have been a bug if we didn't. They were part of the command line parsing that could have seen "-E" on the command line earlier.

If we want to find a commit to assign blame to, I think it is more correct to say that this came from the same one as 19/29 fixes.

When cca2c172 ("git-grep: do not die upon -F/-P when grep.extendedRegexp is set.", 2011-05-09) switched the command line parsing to "read into a 'tentatively this is what we saw the last' variable and then finally commit just once", we didn't touch opt.regflags for PCRE and FIXED, but we still had to flip regflags between BRE and ERE, because parsing of grep.extendedregexp configuration variable directly touched opt.regflags back then, which was done by b22520a3 ("grep: allow -E and -n to be turned on by default via configuration", 2011-03-30). When 84befcd0 ("grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting", 2012-08-03) introduced extended_regexp_option field, we stopped flipping regflags while reading the configuration, and that was when we should have noticed and stopped dropping REG_EXTENDED bit in the "now we can commit what type to use" helper function.

In any case, I think this change is safe to do in the current codebase. I wonder if this and 19/29 should be a single patch, though, as the unnecessary bit-flipping all are blamed to the same origin.

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> Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
> ---
>  grep.c | 5 +----
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/grep.c b/grep.c
> index 59ae7809f2..bf6c2494fd 100644
> --- a/grep.c
> +++ b/grep.c
> @@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ static void grep_set_pattern_type_option(enum grep_pattern_type pattern_type, st
>  	case GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_BRE:
>  		opt->fixed = 0;
>  		opt->pcre = 0;
> -		opt->regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED;
>  		break;
>  
>  	case GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_ERE:
> @@ -191,7 +190,6 @@ static void grep_set_pattern_type_option(enum grep_pattern_type pattern_type, st
>  	case GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_FIXED:
>  		opt->fixed = 1;
>  		opt->pcre = 0;
> -		opt->regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED;
>  		break;
>  
>  	case GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_PCRE:
> @@ -414,10 +412,9 @@ static void compile_fixed_regexp(struct grep_pat *p, struct grep_opt *opt)
>  {
>  	struct strbuf sb = STRBUF_INIT;
>  	int err;
> -	int regflags;
> +	int regflags = opt->regflags;
>  
>  	basic_regex_quote_buf(&sb, p->pattern);
> -	regflags = opt->regflags & ~REG_EXTENDED;
>  	if (opt->ignore_case)
>  		regflags |= REG_ICASE;
>  	err = regcomp(&p->regexp, sb.buf, regflags);
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Message 26 of 42 in “Easy to review grep & pre-PCRE changes”
  1. 00/29 Easy to review grep & pre-PCRE changesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  2. 01/29 Makefile & configure: reword inaccurate comment about PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  3. 02/29 grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexpÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  4. 04/29 log: add exhaustive tests for pattern style options & configÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  5. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017
  6. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 15, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoMay 16, 2017
  8. 05/29 grep: add a test asserting that --perl-regexp dies when !PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  9. 03/29 test-lib: rename the LIBPCRE prerequisite to PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  10. 06/29 grep: add a test for backreferences in PCRE patternsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  11. 07/29 grep: change non-ASCII -i test to stop using --debugÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  12. 08/29 grep: add tests for --threads=N and grep.threadsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  13. 09/29 grep: amend submodule recursion test for regex engine testingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  14. 10/29 grep: add tests for grep pattern types being passed to submodulesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  15. 11/29 grep: add a test helper function for less verbose -f \0 testsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  16. 12/29 grep: prepare for testing binary regexes containing rx metacharactersÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  17. 13/29 grep: add tests to fix blind spots with \0 patternsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  18. 14/29 perf: add a GIT_PERF_MAKE_COMMAND for when *_MAKE_OPTS won't doÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  19. 15/29 perf: emit progress output when unpacking & buildingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  20. 16/29 perf: add a performance comparison test of grep -G, -E and -PÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  21. 18/29 grep: catch a missing enum in switch statementÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  22. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017
  23. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 15, 2017
  24. 17/29 perf: add a performance comparison of fixed-string grepÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  25. 20/29 grep: remove redundant `regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED` assignmentsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  26. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017
  27. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 15, 2017
  28. 19/29 grep: remove redundant regflags assignment under PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  29. 21/29 grep: factor test for \0 in grep patterns into a functionÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  30. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017
  31. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 15, 2017
  32. 22/29 grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  33. 23/29 grep: change internal *pcre* variable & function names to be *pcre1*Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  34. 25/29 test-lib: add a PTHREADS prerequisiteÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  35. 26/29 pack-objects & index-pack: add test for --threads warningÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  36. 24/29 grep: move is_fixed() earlier to avoid forward declarationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  37. 27/29 pack-objects: fix buggy warning about threadsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  38. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017
  39. Ævar Arnfjörð BjarmasonMay 15, 2017
  40. 28/29 grep: given --threads with NO_PTHREADS=YesPlease, warnÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  41. 29/29 grep: assert that threading is enabled when calling grep_{lock,unlock}Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, May 13, 2017
  42. Junio C HamanoMay 15, 2017

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