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Re: svn commit: r1296596 - /subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c

From: Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de>
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 12:42:23 +0200

stefan2_at_apache.org wrote on Sat, Mar 03, 2012 at 10:53:16 -0000:
> Author: stefan2
> Date: Sat Mar 3 10:53:16 2012
> New Revision: 1296596
>
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1296596&view=rev
> Log:
> * subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c
> (reverse_match_length): actually return MAX_LEN if MAX_LEN chars match.
>
> Found by: julianfoad
>
> Modified:
> subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c
>
> Modified: subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c
> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c?rev=1296596&r1=1296595&r2=1296596&view=diff
> ==============================================================================
> --- subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c (original)
> +++ subversion/trunk/subversion/libsvn_delta/xdelta.c Sat Mar 3 10:53:16 2012
> @@ -260,11 +260,15 @@ reverse_match_length(const char *a, cons
>
> #endif
>
> + /* If we find a mismatch at -pos, pos-1 characters matched.
> + */
> while (++pos <= max_len)
> if (a[0-pos] != b[0-pos])
> - break;
> + return pos - 1;
>
> - return pos-1;
> + /* No mismatch found -> at least MAX_LEN machting chars.
> + */
> + return max_len;

I may be blind, but isn't the code before this diff and after it
equivalent?

Both the old and new code return POS-1 when the if() statement is
entered, and if the code falls off the end of the while() loop then
necessarily POS=1+MAX_LEN, again meaning that the old and new code are
equivalent.

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Received on 2012-03-04 11:43:06 CET

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