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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Martin Ågren" <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Cc: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>,
	"Git Mailing List" <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Jeff King" <peff@peff.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2021 08:56:46 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8s2qrps1.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0heSpsg=bwX9gbYfeWYqUbuen-zArR69FWxNmdtcQW_RubzA@mail.gmail.com> ("Martin Ågren"'s message of "Thu, 1 Jul 2021 17:00:02 +0200")

Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com> writes:

>> -#define STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP { NULL, 0, 0, 0, NULL }
>> +#define STRING_LIST_INIT_NODUP { 0 }
>
> This "NODUP" one is a bit of an odd case though. You don't actually
> change it to use designated initializers, as the patch says. Instead you
> change it in a slightly different way. In a sense, you assign the
> literal zero not to strdup_strings, but to the first field, which is a
> pointer, where I would have expected NULL.
>
> I think there's been some recent-ish "we can assign `{ 0 }` even if the
> first field is a pointer, because it's idiomatic and works out fine"
> even if assigning 0 to a pointer looks a bit odd. So it might not be
> wrong as such, but it doesn't match what the commit message claims, and
> I think it would be more clear to use `{ .strdup_strings = 0 }` here:
> We're explicitly interested in *not* duplicating the strings. It's not
> just some default "let's leave everything as zero/NULL".

Well reasoned.  I agree that it is not wrong per-se, and the
solution to use designated initializer is indeed in line with the
theme of the topic.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-07-01 15:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-07-01 10:51 [PATCH 0/5] *.[ch]: don't duplicate *_init() and *_INIT logic Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 10:51 ` [PATCH 1/5] *.h: move some *_INIT to designated initializers Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 15:00   ` Martin Ågren
2021-07-01 15:56     ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2021-07-01 16:08     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 10:51 ` [PATCH 2/5] *.c *_init(): define in terms of corresponding *_INIT macro Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 10:51 ` [PATCH 3/5] dir.[ch]: replace dir_init() with DIR_INIT Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 10:51 ` [PATCH 4/5] string-list.[ch]: add a string_list_init_{nodup,dup}() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 10:51 ` [PATCH 5/5] string-list.h users: change to use *_{nodup,dup}() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2021-07-01 16:13 ` [PATCH 0/5] *.[ch]: don't duplicate *_init() and *_INIT logic Jeff King

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