Re: [PATCH 1/1] midx.c: fix an integer overflow

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Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes:

>> -	for (i = 0; i < m->num_objects - 1; i++) {
>> +	for (i = 0; i + 1 < m->num_objects; i++) {
>>  		struct object_id oid1, oid2;
>>  
>>  		nth_midxed_object_oid(&oid1, m, i);
> [...]           nth_midxed_object_oid(&oid2, m, i + 1);
>
> Perhaps it would be simpler as:
>
>   for (i = 1; i < m->num_objects; i++) {
>           ...
> 	  nth_midxed_object_oid(&oid1, m, i - 1);
> 	  nth_midxed_object_oid(&oid2, m, i);
> 	  ...
>   }

"Count up while i+1 is smaller than..." looked extremely unnatural and
it was hard to grok, at least to me.  This

	for (i = 0; i < m->num_objects - 1; i++) {

might have been more palatable, but yours is much better.

> Though I almost wonder if we should be catching "m->num_objects == 0"
> early and declaring the midx to be bogus (it's not _technically_ wrong,
> but I'd have to suspect a bug in anything that generated a 0-object midx
> file).

That, too ;-)



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