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From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: David Turner <David.Turner@twosigma.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH] Increase core.packedGitLimit
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 11:34:05 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1704211131310.3480@virtualbox> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4c111acb3f134aa9aef8648d75bd741f@exmbdft7.ad.twosigma.com>

Hi Dave,

On Thu, 20 Apr 2017, David Turner wrote:
> 
> We might want to think about replacing git_config_ulong with 
> git_config_size_t in nearly all cases. "long" has ceased to be 
> useful.  More modern versions of C prefer uint64_t, but I
> think that we'll usually want size_t because these values will
> be used as memory limits of various sorts.

Indeed, `unsigned long` has ceased to be useful ever since the
introduction of inttypes.h. It is just too undefined.

We probably also need git_config_off_t(), though, and maybe even
git_config_ssize_t().

I would definitely welcome a change in direction where we use datatypes
also as a documentation of the variables' purpose.

Ciao,
Dscho

  reply	other threads:[~2017-04-21  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-20 20:41 [PATCH] Increase core.packedGitLimit David Turner
2017-04-20 21:02 ` Jeff King
2017-04-20 21:58   ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-20 22:04     ` David Turner
2017-04-21  9:34       ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2017-06-21 13:51   ` [PATCH] docs: update 64-bit core.packedGitLimit default Jeff King
2017-06-21 16:25     ` Stefan Beller
2017-06-21 18:06       ` Jeff King
2017-06-21 18:38         ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-21 18:53           ` Jeff King
2017-06-21 19:22             ` Junio C Hamano
2017-06-21 19:31               ` Jeff King
2017-06-21 13:44 ` [PATCH] Increase core.packedGitLimit Jeff King

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