Re: [PATCH] read_cache: cast types from stat to ce_cache

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Erik Faye-Lund venit, vidit, dixit 11.06.2010 16:15:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 10.06.2010 17:54:
>>> Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>>
>>>> -    ce->ce_dev = st->st_dev;
>>>> -    ce->ce_ino = st->st_ino;
>>>> -    ce->ce_uid = st->st_uid;
>>>> -    ce->ce_gid = st->st_gid;
>>>> -    ce->ce_size = st->st_size;
>>>> +    ce->ce_dev = (unsigned int)st->st_dev;
>>>> +    ce->ce_ino = (unsigned int)st->st_ino;
>>>> +    ce->ce_uid = (unsigned int)st->st_uid;
>>>> +    ce->ce_gid = (unsigned int)st->st_gid;
>>>> +    ce->ce_size = (unsigned int)st->st_size;
>>>
>>> I haven't had my morning coffee yet, but wouldn't the conversion be
>>> automatic by assignment anyway?
>>
>> Well, we do cast from dev_t etc. to unsigned int in all other places in
>> read_cache.c.
>>
> 
> The only cases where we cast anything to unsigned in on assignment in
> read-cache.h is where we assign the second-part of the ce_ctime and
> ce_mtime members:
> 	ce->ce_ctime.sec = (unsigned int)st->st_ctime;
> 	ce->ce_mtime.sec = (unsigned int)st->st_mtime;
> 
> These are indeed superfluous (as yours are) as far as I can tell.
> There's also some casts on comparison, and I think they also are
> superfluous. The current casts originate from commits fba2f38a,
> 5bcf109c, e1afca4f and 7a51ed66.
> 
> They don't do any harm though, so I don't think it makes much sense to
> remove them.
> 

OK, then we can leave them resp. leave them out until a compiler complains.

I just stumbled upon this "inconsistency" when hunting down that fs
boundary warning.

Michael
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