[ccan] [PATCH 1/2] darray: Fix bug in the darray_remove() macro

Damien Grassart damien at grassart.com
Mon Aug 28 07:02:11 AEST 2017


Good point about shadowing index(3), I'll send a patch renaming all the
uses of 'index'.

On Sun, Aug 27, 2017 at 4:56 AM, David Gibson <david at gibson.dropbear.id.au>
wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 06:26:20PM +0200, Damien Grassart wrote:
> > The memmove() call should be using the index argument to determine the
> > number of bytes to copy.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Damien Grassart <damien at grassart.com>
>
> No question that was a bug.  Fix applied.
>
> Note for a possible future cleanup: calling identifiers 'index' is
> usually a bad idea, because it shadows index(3) in the C library,
> which means you can get really confusing errors (or lack of errors) if
> you remove the declaration but not the users.
>
> > ---
> >  ccan/darray/darray.h | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/ccan/darray/darray.h b/ccan/darray/darray.h
> > index 75112419..8d47645b 100644
> > --- a/ccan/darray/darray.h
> > +++ b/ccan/darray/darray.h
> > @@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ typedef darray(unsigned long)  darray_ulong;
> >  /* Warning, slow: Requires copying all elements after removed item. */
> >  #define darray_remove(arr, index) do { \
> >       if (index < arr.size-1)    \
> > -             memmove(&(arr).item[index], &(arr).item[index+1],
> ((arr).size-1-i)*sizeof(*(arr).item)); \
> > +             memmove(&(arr).item[index], &(arr).item[index+1],
> ((arr).size-1-index)*sizeof(*(arr).item)); \
> >       (arr).size--;  \
> >       } while(0)
> >
>
> --
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