Re: heads-up: git-index-pack in "next" is broken

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On Tue, 17 Oct 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> Sergey Vlasov <vsu@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 14:47:16 -0400 (EDT) Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> >
> >> Is it possible that sizeof(union delta_base) might not be equal to 20 
> >> for you?
> >
> > Yes, on x86_64 this is 24 because of 8-byte alignment for longs:
> 
> Enough eyeballs made this bug shallow ;-)  Thanks.
> 
> diff --git a/index-pack.c b/index-pack.c
> index fffddd2..49b6efe 100644
> --- a/index-pack.c
> +++ b/index-pack.c
> @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ static void *unpack_raw_entry(unsigned l
>  	case OBJ_REF_DELTA:
>  		if (pos + 20 >= pack_limit)
>  			bad_object(offset, "object extends past end of pack");
> +		memset(delta_base, 0, sizeof(*delta_base));
>  		hashcpy(delta_base->sha1, pack_base + pos);

Yeah.... but this is a bit wasteful since (especially on 32-bit archs) 
you just write to the same memory twice in a row.


Nicolas
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