On Sun, Oct 08, 2017 at 02:49:41PM -0400, Derrick Stolee wrote: > +static inline char get_hex_char_from_oid(const struct object_id *oid, > + int pos) > +{ > + static const char hex[] = "0123456789abcdef"; > + > + if ((pos & 1) == 0) > + return hex[oid->hash[pos >> 1] >> 4]; > + else > + return hex[oid->hash[pos >> 1] & 0xf]; > +} Should "pos" be unsigned? I don't think it matters much in practice (as long as it's not negative, the results are well defined by the standard, and this clearly will be between 0 and 40). But it seems funny that we consistently use unsigned in the rest of the caller and then implicitly convert to signed here. -Peff