Re: [PATCH 3/5] pack-objects: clamp negative window size to 0

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On 5/1/2021 10:03 AM, Jeff King wrote:
> A negative window size makes no sense, and the code in find_deltas() is
> not prepared to handle it. If you pass "-1", for example, we end up
> generate a 0-length array of "struct unpacked", but our loop assumes it
> has at least one entry in it (and we end up reading garbage memory).
> 
> We could complain to the user about this, but it's more forgiving to
> just clamp it to 0, which means "do not find any deltas at all". The
> 0-case is already tested earlier in the script, so we'll make sure this
> does the same thing.

This seems like a reasonable approach. It takes existing "undefined"
behavior and turns it into well-understood, "defined" behavior.

Thanks,
-Stolee



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