From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: "dmh@ucar.edu" <dmh@ucar.edu>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] add an extra level of indirection to main()
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 15:39:03 +0200 (CEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1607011449380.12947@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20160701081919.GA21076@sigill.intra.peff.net>
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Hi Peff,
On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Jeff King wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2016 at 10:04:44AM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 1 Jul 2016, Jeff King wrote:
> >
> > > I waffled between the two mechanisms. Opinions welcome.
> >
> > I am happy you took the cmd_main() approach: we do have to play some
> > tricks on Windows, in particular in some upcoming changes that support
> > building with MS Visual C++ (we want to ensure that `argv` is in UTF-8,
> > which means that we actually have to use the UTF-16 versions and convert
> > them manually lest argv has the current Windows encoding of strings).
> > Which means that we still have to use that mingw_startup() trick you
> > mentioned, and which would have interfered had you chosen a similar
> > method.
>
> I actually wondered if it would make sense to get rid of the
> mingw_main() macro, and do it here as just:
>
> #ifdef MINGW
> mingw_startup();
> #endif
>
> or something. But I didn't look deeply at it, and anyway I am afraid to
> touch anything in that area because I can't even compile-test it.
Sure. There are a couple of patches in flight to support MSVC better, and
one part is a duplication of mingw_startup(). I would like to fix that
before merging, of course, and hope that it will naturally be helped by
your patch series.
> > > diff --git a/common-main.c b/common-main.c
> > > new file mode 100644
> > > index 0000000..2b96bbf
> > > --- /dev/null
> > > +++ b/common-main.c
> > > @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
> > > +#include "git-compat-util.h"
> > > +
> > > +int main(int argc, char **av)
> > > +{
> > > + /*
> > > + * This const trickery is explained in
> > > + * 84d32bf7678259c08406571cd6ce4b7a6724dcba
> >
> > This commit message says that mingw_main() is declared with char **argv,
> > and that is the reason why we have to convert. Maybe spell that out here,
> > and then in a subsequent commit, we can fix the mingw_main() declaration?
>
> The description was sufficiently long that I didn't want to try
> repeating it, and opted for a reference instead. If you're planning to
> fix mingw_main(), I'd be happy to do that as a preparatory patch, and
> then just skip this trickery entirely. :)
Deal:
½/5 is in 5c54dff5c54e68a1101d8fe37aefc6158fddd7f2 and the fixup for 1/5
is in 7b74f7aabb56b428c74f5983c066dc9ea8fe5116 in the 'common-main' branch
on https://github.com/dscho/git.
(I had to resolve merge conflicts in a couple of the later patches, so
feel free to just use the branch, but please note that I cherry-picked a
patch to let me compile with DEVELOPER=1 on Windows, so you might want to
drop 7b74f7aabb56b428c74f5983c066dc9ea8fe5116.)
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-07-01 13:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-30 21:24 git-credentials-store.exe crash dmh
2016-07-01 4:07 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 5:55 ` [PATCH 0/5] consistent setup code for external commands Jeff King
2016-07-01 5:58 ` [PATCH 1/5] add an extra level of indirection to main() Jeff King
2016-07-01 8:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-01 8:19 ` Jeff King
2016-07-01 13:39 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2016-07-01 22:38 ` Jeff King
2016-07-02 6:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-01 6:04 ` [PATCH 2/5] common-main: call git_extract_argv0_path() Jeff King
2016-07-01 8:05 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-01 6:06 ` [PATCH 3/5] common-main: call sanitize_stdfds() Jeff King
2016-07-01 6:06 ` [PATCH 4/5] common-main: call restore_sigpipe_to_default() Jeff King
2016-07-01 6:07 ` [PATCH 5/5] common-main: call git_setup_gettext() Jeff King
2016-07-01 7:45 ` [PATCH 0/5] consistent setup code for external commands Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-01 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-01 22:39 ` Jeff King
2016-07-06 15:17 ` Junio C Hamano
2016-07-06 15:36 ` Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-01 7:38 ` git-credentials-store.exe crash Johannes Schindelin
2016-07-01 7:43 ` Jeff King
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