Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] repo-settings: create core.featureAdoptionRate setting

[Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jun 28, 2019 at 6:44 PM Derrick Stolee <stolee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 6/28/2019 5:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> > "Derrick Stolee via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > Use of "signed char" would be OK, but this is a singleton instance
> > per repository, so I am not sure how much it matters to save a few
> > words here by not using the most natural "int" type.
>
> I'll use 'int' in v2.

FWIW, this broke the build in (at least) Linux AArch64, unless the following
is applied on top of ds/early-access

Carlo
-- >8 --
Subject: [PATCH] repo-settings: explicitly make flags using char as signed

used as a three state boolean and therefore could also be set/compared
with -1, which will break in architectures that use unsigned char by
default (ex: ARM)

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
---
 repo-settings.h | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/repo-settings.h b/repo-settings.h
index b50228f992..544873fff4 100644
--- a/repo-settings.h
+++ b/repo-settings.h
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 #define REPO_SETTINGS_H

 struct repo_settings {
-       char core_commit_graph;
-       char gc_write_commit_graph;
-       char pack_use_sparse;
+       signed char core_commit_graph;
+       signed char gc_write_commit_graph;
+       signed char pack_use_sparse;
        int index_version;
 };

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