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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Piotr Trojanek <piotr.trojanek@gmail.com>,
	Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Cc: notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] fix wrong printf formatting of signed/unsigned integers
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2017 10:04:25 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874lv2vr1i.fsf@tesseract.cs.unb.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGExNxEJOYsdbtEJ8-OhdU6-61HH9qykSToSrjtrco8jYqkxbw@mail.gmail.com>

Piotr Trojanek <piotr.trojanek@gmail.com> writes:

> For the second FIXME, I don't quite see why not just use the bsearch
> function. It could be called either with strcmp (if exact is true) or
> with a simple wrapper around strncmp (if exact is false). This wrapper
> could replace the string_cmp routine, so together with bsearch this
> could even make the code smaller.

AFAIK, bsearch does not guarantee to return the first string matching
the key, which is what we need here.

>
> Also, I don't really understand the intention behind declaring
> string_cmp as returning notmuch_bool_t and then, in bsearch_first,
> casting its result to int.

yes, that looks odd to me also, especially since it really just wraps
strcmp / strncmp, which are signed. Probably just an error on my part.

d

  reply	other threads:[~2017-06-26 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-06-16 22:50 [PATCH 1/5] minor whitespace cleanups Piotr Trojanek
2017-06-16 22:50 ` [PATCH 2/5] add leaks due to missing invocations of va_end Piotr Trojanek
2017-06-16 22:50 ` [PATCH 3/5] remove ineffective assignments Piotr Trojanek
2017-08-20 13:56   ` Jani Nikula
2017-06-16 22:50 ` [PATCH 4/5] fix wrong printf formatting of signed/unsigned integers Piotr Trojanek
2017-06-21 16:11   ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2017-06-26 12:14     ` Piotr Trojanek
2017-06-26 13:04       ` David Bremner [this message]
2017-06-26 22:54       ` David Bremner
2017-06-25 12:57   ` David Bremner
2017-06-16 22:50 ` [PATCH 5/5] flag potential problems with FIXME Piotr Trojanek
2017-06-25 12:34 ` [PATCH 1/5] minor whitespace cleanups David Bremner

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