From: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>,
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>,
Johannes Sixt <j6t@kdbg.org>, Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] add SWAP macro
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2017 19:06:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <bfd0d758-a9c8-9792-6294-9f9ed632cc98@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170201114750.r5xdy6emdczmnh4j@sigill.intra.peff.net>
Am 01.02.2017 um 12:47 schrieb Jeff King:
> I'm not altogether convinced that SWAP() is an improvement in
> readability. I really like that it's shorter than the code it replaces,
> but there is a danger with introducing opaque constructs. It's one more
> thing for somebody familiar with C but new to the project to learn or
> get wrong.
I'm biased, of course, but SIMPLE_SWAP and SWAP exchange the values of
two variables -- how could someone get that wrong? Would it help to
name the macro SWAP_VALUES? Or XCHG? ;)
> IMHO the main maintenance gain from René's patch is that you don't have
> to specify the type, which means you can never have a memory-overflow
> bug due to incorrect types. If we lose that, then I don't see all that
> much value in the whole thing.
Size checks could be added to SIMPLE_SWAP as well.
The main benefit of a swap macro is reduced repetition IMHO: Users
specify the variables to swap once instead of twice in a special order,
and with SWAP they don't need to declare their type again. Squeezing
out redundancy makes the code easier to read and modify.
René
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-01 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-28 21:13 [PATCH 0/5] introduce SWAP macro René Scharfe
2017-01-28 21:38 ` [PATCH 1/5] add " René Scharfe
2017-01-30 15:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 16:48 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-30 20:48 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 21:46 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-31 12:13 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-31 21:02 ` René Scharfe
2017-02-01 0:44 ` Ramsay Jones
2017-02-01 11:39 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 16:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 16:59 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-30 18:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2017-01-30 21:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 22:09 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-30 22:21 ` Brandon Williams
2017-01-31 21:03 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-31 21:35 ` Jeff King
2017-01-31 22:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-31 22:36 ` Jeff King
2017-02-01 11:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-02-01 11:47 ` Jeff King
2017-02-01 18:06 ` René Scharfe [this message]
2017-02-01 18:33 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-07 22:04 ` René Scharfe
2017-02-07 22:30 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-02-08 15:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-31 12:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-04-24 11:29 ` Jeff King
2017-04-24 11:49 ` Jeff King
2017-04-24 13:13 ` Duy Nguyen
2017-04-28 17:04 ` René Scharfe
2017-04-28 21:49 ` Jeff King
2017-04-29 18:16 ` René Scharfe
2017-04-30 3:11 ` Jeff King
2017-05-02 5:29 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-28 21:40 ` [PATCH 2/5] apply: use " René Scharfe
2017-01-28 21:40 ` [PATCH 3/5] " René Scharfe
2017-01-30 16:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 17:18 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-30 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-31 21:02 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-28 21:41 ` [PATCH 4/5] diff: " René Scharfe
2017-01-30 16:04 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 17:26 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-30 22:22 ` Junio C Hamano
2017-01-28 21:42 ` [PATCH 5/5] graph: " René Scharfe
2017-01-30 16:16 ` Johannes Schindelin
2017-01-30 17:41 ` René Scharfe
2017-01-30 23:20 ` [PATCH 0/5] introduce " Junio C Hamano
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