Re: [PATCH] read_cache: cast types from stat to ce_cache

[Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 10.06.2010 17:54:
>> Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:
>>
>>> -    ce->ce_dev = st->st_dev;
>>> -    ce->ce_ino = st->st_ino;
>>> -    ce->ce_uid = st->st_uid;
>>> -    ce->ce_gid = st->st_gid;
>>> -    ce->ce_size = st->st_size;
>>> +    ce->ce_dev = (unsigned int)st->st_dev;
>>> +    ce->ce_ino = (unsigned int)st->st_ino;
>>> +    ce->ce_uid = (unsigned int)st->st_uid;
>>> +    ce->ce_gid = (unsigned int)st->st_gid;
>>> +    ce->ce_size = (unsigned int)st->st_size;
>>
>> I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but wouldn't the conversion be
>> automatic by assignment anyway?
>
> Well, we do cast from dev_t etc. to unsigned int in all other places in
> read_cache.c.
>

The only cases where we cast anything to unsigned in on assignment in
read-cache.h is where we assign the second-part of the ce_ctime and
ce_mtime members:
	ce->ce_ctime.sec = (unsigned int)st->st_ctime;
	ce->ce_mtime.sec = (unsigned int)st->st_mtime;

These are indeed superfluous (as yours are) as far as I can tell.
There's also some casts on comparison, and I think they also are
superfluous. The current casts originate from commits fba2f38a,
5bcf109c, e1afca4f and 7a51ed66.

They don't do any harm though, so I don't think it makes much sense to
remove them.

-- 
Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund