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2018-11-14coccicheck: introduce 'pending' semantic patchesLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-0/+41
Teach `make coccicheck` to avoid patches named "*.pending.cocci" and handle them separately in a new `make coccicheck-pending` instead. This means that we can separate "critical" patches from "FYI" patches. The former target can continue causing Travis to fail its static analysis job, while the latter can let us keep an eye on ongoing (pending) transitions without them causing too much fallout. Document the intended use-cases around these two targets. As the process around the pending patches is not yet fully explored, leave that out. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Based-on-work-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-30Merge branch 'jc/cocci-preincr'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Code cleanup. * jc/cocci-preincr: fsck: s/++i > 1/i++/ cocci: simplify "if (++u > 1)" to "if (u++)"
2018-10-24cocci: simplify "if (++u > 1)" to "if (u++)"Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
It is more common to use post-increment than pre-increment when the side effect is the primary thing we want in our code and in C in general (unlike C++). Initializing a variable to 0, incrementing it every time we do something, and checking if we have already done that thing to guard the code to do that thing, is easier to understand when written if (u++) ; /* we've done that! */ else do_it(); /* just once. */ but if you try to use pre-increment, you end up with a less natural looking if (++u > 1) Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-15object_id.cocci: match only expressions of type 'struct object_id'Libravatar SZEDER Gábor1-54/+63
Most of our semantic patches in 'contrib/coccinelle/object_id.cocci' turn calls of SHA1-specific functions into calls of their corresponding object_id counterparts, e.g. sha1_to_hex() to oid_to_hex(). These semantic patches look something like this: @@ expression E1; @@ - sha1_to_hex(E1.hash) + oid_to_hex(&E1) and match the access to the 'hash' field in any data type, not only in 'struct object_id', and, consquently, can produce wrong transformations. Case in point is the recent hash function transition patch "rerere: convert to use the_hash_algo" [1], which, among other things, renamed 'struct rerere_dir's 'sha1' field to 'hash', and then 'make coccicheck' started to suggest the following wrong transformations for 'rerere.c' [2]: - return sha1_to_hex(id->collection->hash); + return oid_to_hex(id->collection); and - DIR *dir = opendir(git_path("rr-cache/%s", sha1_to_hex(rr_dir->hash))); + DIR *dir = opendir(git_path("rr-cache/%s", oid_to_hex(rr_dir))); Avoid such wrong transformations by tightening semantic patches in 'object_id.cocci' to match only type of or pointers to 'struct object_id'. [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20181008215701.779099-15-sandals@crustytoothpaste.net/ [2] https://travis-ci.org/git/git/jobs/440463476#L580 Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-29convert "hashcmp() != 0" to "!hasheq()"Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
This rounds out the previous three patches, covering the inequality logic for the "hash" variant of the functions. As with the previous three, the accompanying code changes are the mechanical result of applying the coccinelle patch; see those patches for more discussion. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-29convert "oidcmp() != 0" to "!oideq()"Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+6
This is the flip side of the previous two patches: checking for a non-zero oidcmp() can be more strictly expressed as inequality. Like those patches, we write "!= 0" in the coccinelle transformation, which covers by isomorphism the more common: if (oidcmp(E1, E2)) As with the previous two patches, this patch can be achieved almost entirely by running "make coccicheck"; the only differences are manual line-wrap fixes to match the original code. There is one thing to note for anybody replicating this, though: coccinelle 1.0.4 seems to miss the case in builtin/tag.c, even though it's basically the same as all the others. Running with 1.0.7 does catch this, so presumably it's just a coccinelle bug that was fixed in the interim. Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-29convert "hashcmp() == 0" to hasheq()Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+9
This is the partner patch to the previous one, but covering the "hash" variants instead of "oid". Note that our coccinelle rule is slightly more complex to avoid triggering the call in hasheq(). I didn't bother to add a new rule to convert: - hasheq(E1->hash, E2->hash) + oideq(E1, E2) Since these are new functions, there won't be any such existing callers. And since most of the code is already using oideq, we're not likely to introduce new ones. We might still see "!hashcmp(E1->hash, E2->hash)" from topics in flight. But because our new rule comes after the existing ones, that should first get converted to "!oidcmp(E1, E2)" and then to "oideq(E1, E2)". Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-29convert "oidcmp() == 0" to oideq()Libravatar Jeff King1-0/+6
Using the more restrictive oideq() should, in the long run, give the compiler more opportunities to optimize these callsites. For now, this conversion should be a complete noop with respect to the generated code. The result is also perhaps a little more readable, as it avoids the "zero is equal" idiom. Since it's so prevalent in C, I think seasoned programmers tend not to even notice it anymore, but it can sometimes make for awkward double negations (e.g., we can drop a few !!oidcmp() instances here). This patch was generated almost entirely by the included coccinelle patch. This mechanical conversion should be completely safe, because we check explicitly for cases where oidcmp() is compared to 0, which is what oideq() is doing under the hood. Note that we don't have to catch "!oidcmp()" separately; coccinelle's standard isomorphisms make sure the two are treated equivalently. I say "almost" because I did hand-edit the coccinelle output to fix up a few style violations (it mostly keeps the original formatting, but sometimes unwraps long lines). Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-08-29coccinelle: use <...> for function exclusionLibravatar Jeff King2-12/+12
Sometimes we want to suppress a coccinelle transformation inside a particular function. For example, in finding conversions of hashcmp() to oidcmp(), we should not convert the call in oidcmp() itself, since that would cause infinite recursion. We write that like this: @@ identifier f != oidcmp; expression E1, E2; @@ f(...) {... - hashcmp(E1->hash, E2->hash) + oidcmp(E1, E2) ...} to match the interior of any function _except_ oidcmp(). Unfortunately, this doesn't catch all cases (e.g., the one in sequencer.c that this patch fixes). The problem, as explained by one of the Coccinelle developers in [1], is: For transformation, A ... B requires that B occur on every execution path starting with A, unless that execution path ends up in error handling code. (eg, if (...) { ... return; }). Here your A is the start of the function. So you need a call to hashcmp on every path through the function, which fails when you add ifs. [...] Another issue with A ... B is that by default A and B should not appear in the matched region. So your original rule matches only the case where every execution path contains exactly one call to hashcmp, not more than one. One way to solve this is to put the pattern inside an angle-bracket pattern like "<... P ...>", which allows zero or more matches of P. That works (and is what this patch does), but it has one drawback: it matches more than we care about, and Coccinelle uses extra CPU. Here are timings for "make coccicheck" before and after this patch: [before] real 1m27.122s user 7m34.451s sys 0m37.330s [after] real 2m18.040s user 10m58.310s sys 0m41.549s That's not ideal, but it's more important for this to be correct than to be fast. And coccicheck is already fairly slow (and people don't run it for every single patch). So it's an acceptable tradeoff. There _is_ a better way to do it, which is to record the position at which we find hashcmp(), and then check it against the forbidden function list. Like: @@ position p : script:python() { p[0].current_element != "oidcmp" }; expression E1,E2; @@ - hashcmp@p(E1->hash, E2->hash) + oidcmp(E1, E2) This is only a little slower than the current code, and does the right thing in all cases. Unfortunately, not all builds of Coccinelle include python support (including the ones in Debian). Requiring it may mean that fewer people can easily run the tool, which is worse than it simply being a little slower. We may want to revisit this decision in the future if: - builds with python become more common - we find more uses for python support that tip the cost-benefit analysis But for now this patch sticks with the angle-bracket solution, and converts all existing cocci patches. This fixes only one missed case in the current code, though it makes a much better difference for some new rules I'm adding (converting "!hashcmp()" to "hasheq()" misses over half the possible conversions using the old form). [1] https://public-inbox.org/git/alpine.DEB.2.21.1808240652370.2344@hadrien/ Helped-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr> Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-16coccinelle: update commit.cocciLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+1
A recent patch series renamed the get_commit_tree_from_graph method but forgot to update the coccinelle script that exempted it from rules regarding accesses to 'maybe_tree'. This fixes that oversight to bring the coccinelle scripts back to a good state. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-02coccinelle: avoid wrong transformation suggestions from commit.cocciLibravatar SZEDER Gábor1-6/+4
The semantic patch 'contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci' added in 2e27bd7731 (treewide: replace maybe_tree with accessor methods, 2018-04-06) is supposed to "ensure that all references to the 'maybe_tree' member of struct commit are either mutations or accesses through get_commit_tree()". So get_commit_tree() clearly must be able to directly access the 'maybe_tree' member, and 'commit.cocci' has a bit of a roundabout workaround to ensure that get_commit_tree()'s direct access in its return statement is not transformed: after all references to 'maybe_tree' have been transformed to a call to get_commit_tree(), including the reference in get_commit_tree() itself, the last rule transforms back a 'return get_commit_tree()' statement, back then found only in get_commit_tree() itself, to a direct access. Unfortunately, already the very next commit shows that this workaround is insufficient: 7b8a21dba1 (commit-graph: lazy-load trees for commits, 2018-04-06) extends get_commit_tree() with a condition directly accessing the 'maybe_tree' member, and Coccinelle with 'commit.cocci' promptly detects it and suggests a transformation to avoid it. This transformation is clearly wrong, because calling get_commit_tree() to access 'maybe_tree' _in_ get_commit_tree() would obviously lead to recursion. Furthermore, the same commit added another, more specialized getter function get_commit_tree_in_graph(), whose legitimate direct access to 'maybe_tree' triggers a similar wrong transformation suggestion. Exclude both of these getter functions from the general rule in 'commit.cocci' that matches their direct accesses to 'maybe_tree'. Also exclude load_tree_for_commit(), which, as static helper funcion of get_commit_tree_in_graph(), has legitimate direct access to 'maybe_tree' as well. The last rule transforming back 'return get_commit_tree()' statements to direct accesses thus became unnecessary, remove it. Signed-off-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Acked-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-04-11treewide: replace maybe_tree with accessor methodsLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-0/+30
In anticipation of making trees load lazily, create a Coccinelle script (contrib/coccinelle/commit.cocci) to ensure that all references to the 'maybe_tree' member of struct commit are either mutations or accesses through get_commit_tree() or get_commit_tree_oid(). Apply the Coccinelle script to create the rest of the patch. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-02-15Merge branch 'rs/cocci-strbuf-addf-to-addstr'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-16/+1
* rs/cocci-strbuf-addf-to-addstr: cocci: simplify check for trivial format strings
2018-02-02cocci: simplify check for trivial format stringsLibravatar René Scharfe1-16/+1
353d84c537 (coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more precise) added a check to avoid transforming calls with format strings which contain percent signs, as that would change the result. It uses embedded Python code for that. Simplify this rule by using the regular expression matching operator instead. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-01-19cocci: use format keyword instead of a literal stringLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+2
There's a rule in strbuf.cocci for converting trivial uses of strbuf_addf() to strbuf_addstr() in order to simplify the code and improve performance a bit. Coccinelle 1.0.0~rc19.deb-3 on Travis CI lets the "%s" in that rule match format strings like "%d" as well for some reason, though, leading to invalid proposed patches. Use the "format" keyword to let Coccinelle parse the format string and match the conversion specifier with a trivial regular expression instead. This works fine with both Coccinelle 1.0.0~rc19.deb-3 and 1.0.4.deb-3+b3 (the current version on Debian testing). Reported-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Tested-by: SZEDER Gábor <szeder.dev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-10-02coccinelle: remove parentheses that become unnecessaryLibravatar René Scharfe1-5/+5
Transformations that hide multiplications can end up with an pair of parentheses that is no longer needed. E.g. with a rule like this: @@ expression E; @@ - E * 2 + double(E) ... we might get a patch like this: - x = (a + b) * 2; + x = double((a + b)); Add a pair of parentheses to the preimage side of such rules. Coccinelle will generate patches that remove them if they are present, and it will still match expressions that lack them. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-07-17add MOVE_ARRAYLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+17
Similar to COPY_ARRAY (introduced in 60566cbb58), add a safe and convenient helper for moving potentially overlapping ranges of array entries. It infers the element size, multiplies automatically and safely to get the size in bytes, does a basic type safety check by comparing element sizes and unlike memmove(3) it supports NULL pointers iff 0 elements are to be moved. Also add a semantic patch to demonstrate the helper's intended usage. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-29coccinelle: polish FREE_AND_NULL rulesLibravatar René Scharfe1-9/+1
There are two rules for using FREE_AND_NULL in free.cocci, one for pointer types and one for expressions. Both cause coccinelle to remove empty lines and even newline characters between replacements for some reason; consecutive "free(x);/x=NULL;" sequences end up as multiple FREE_AND_NULL calls on the same time. Remove the type rule, as the expression rule already covers it, and rearrange the lines of the latter to place the addition of FREE_AND_NULL between the removals, which causes coccinelle to leave surrounding whitespace untouched. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-16coccinelle: add a rule to make "expression" code use FREE_AND_NULL()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+7
A follow-up to the existing "type" rule added in an earlier change. This catches some occurrences that are missed by the previous rule. Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-06-16coccinelle: add a rule to make "type" code use FREE_AND_NULL()Libravatar Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason1-0/+8
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-03-10Merge branch 'rs/strbuf-add-real-path'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-0/+22
An helper function to make it easier to append the result from real_path() to a strbuf has been added. * rs/strbuf-add-real-path: strbuf: add strbuf_add_real_path() cocci: use ALLOC_ARRAY
2017-02-27strbuf: add strbuf_add_real_path()Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+6
Add a function for appending the canonized absolute pathname of a given path to a strbuf. It keeps the existing contents intact, as expected of a function of the strbuf_add() family, while avoiding copying the result if the given strbuf is empty. It's more consistent with the rest of the strbuf API than strbuf_realpath(), which it's wrapping. Also add a semantic patch demonstrating its intended usage and apply it to the current tree. Using strbuf_add_real_path() instead of calling strbuf_addstr() and real_path() avoids an extra copy to a static buffer. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-27cocci: use ALLOC_ARRAYLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+16
Add a semantic patch for using ALLOC_ARRAY to allocate arrays and apply the transformation on the current source tree. The macro checks for multiplication overflow and infers the element size automatically; the result is shorter and safer code. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-16Merge branch 'rs/cocci-check-free-only-null'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
A new coccinelle rule that catches a check of !pointer before the pointer is free(3)d, which most likely is a bug. * rs/cocci-check-free-only-null: cocci: detect useless free(3) calls
2017-02-15Merge branch 'rs/swap'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+28
Code clean-up. * rs/swap: graph: use SWAP macro diff: use SWAP macro use SWAP macro apply: use SWAP macro add SWAP macro
2017-02-11cocci: detect useless free(3) callsLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+6
Add a semantic patch for removing checks that cause free(3) to only be called with a NULL pointer, as that must be a programming mistake. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-02-02Merge branch 'rs/absolute-pathdup'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+6
Code cleanup. * rs/absolute-pathdup: use absolute_pathdup() abspath: add absolute_pathdup()
2017-01-30add SWAP macroLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+28
Add a macro for exchanging the values of variables. It allows users to avoid repetition and takes care of the temporary variable for them. It also makes sure that the storage sizes of its two parameters are the same. Its memcpy(1) calls are optimized away by current compilers. Also add a conservative semantic patch for transforming only swaps of variables of the same type. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-01-26abspath: add absolute_pathdup()Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+6
Add a function that returns a buffer containing the absolute path of its argument and a semantic patch for its intended use. It avoids an extra string copy to a static buffer. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-11-01Merge branch 'rs/cocci'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+15
Improve the rule to convert "unsigned char [20]" into "struct object_id *" in contrib/coccinelle/ * rs/cocci: cocci: avoid self-references in object_id transformations
2016-11-01cocci: avoid self-references in object_id transformationsLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+15
The object_id functions oid_to_hex, oid_to_hex_r, oidclr, oidcmp, and oidcpy are defined as wrappers of their legacy counterparts sha1_to_hex, sha1_to_hex_r, hashclr, hashcmp, and hashcpy, respectively. Make sure that the Coccinelle transformations for converting legacy function calls are not applied to these wrappers themselves, which would result in tautological declarations. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-28Merge branch 'jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
Code cleanup. * jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null: cocci: refactor common patterns to use xstrdup_or_null()
2016-10-28Merge branch 'rs/cocci' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano4-6/+52
Code cleanup. * rs/cocci: use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 3 remove unnecessary NULL check before free(3) coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more precise use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 2 use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s", part 2 gitignore: ignore output files of coccicheck make target use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf, part 2 add coccicheck make target contrib/coccinelle: fix semantic patch for oid_to_hex_r()
2016-10-26Merge branch 'jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
Code cleanup. * jc/cocci-xstrdup-or-null: cocci: refactor common patterns to use xstrdup_or_null()
2016-10-17Merge branch 'rs/cocci'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+5
Code cleanup. * rs/cocci: use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 3 remove unnecessary NULL check before free(3)
2016-10-12cocci: refactor common patterns to use xstrdup_or_null()Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+7
d64ea0f83b ("git-compat-util: add xstrdup_or_null helper", 2015-01-12) added a handy wrapper that allows us to get a duplicate of a string or NULL if the original is NULL, but a handful of codepath predate its introduction or just weren't aware of it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-10Merge branch 'rs/qsort'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+37
We call "qsort(array, nelem, sizeof(array[0]), fn)", and most of the time third parameter is redundant. A new QSORT() macro lets us omit it. * rs/qsort: show-branch: use QSORT use QSORT, part 2 coccicheck: use --all-includes by default remove unnecessary check before QSORT use QSORT add QSORT
2016-10-10remove unnecessary NULL check before free(3)Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+5
free(3) handles NULL pointers just fine. Add a semantic patch for removing unnecessary NULL checks before calling this function, and apply it on the code base. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-10-06Merge branch 'rs/cocci'Libravatar Junio C Hamano2-1/+37
Code clean-up with help from coccinelle tool continues. * rs/cocci: coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more precise use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 2 use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s", part 2 gitignore: ignore output files of coccicheck make target
2016-10-03Merge branch 'rs/copy-array'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+26
Code cleanup. * rs/copy-array: use COPY_ARRAY add COPY_ARRAY
2016-10-03coccicheck: make transformation for strbuf_addf(sb, "...") more preciseLibravatar René Scharfe1-3/+26
We can replace strbuf_addf() calls that just add a simple string with calls to strbuf_addstr() to make the intent clearer. We need to be careful if that string contains printf format specifications like %%, though, as a simple replacement would change the output. Add checks to the semantic patch to make sure we only perform the transformation if the second argument is a string constant (possibly translated) that doesn't contain any percent signs. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29remove unnecessary check before QSORTLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+18
Add a semantic patch for removing checks similar to the one that QSORT already does internally and apply it to the code base. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-29add QSORTLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+19
Add the macro QSORT, a convenient wrapper for qsort(3) that infers the size of the array elements and supports the convention of initializing empty arrays with a NULL pointer, which we use in some places. Calling qsort(3) directly with a NULL pointer is undefined -- even with an element count of zero -- and allows the compiler to optimize away any following NULL checks. Using the macro avoids such surprises. Add a semantic patch as well to demonstrate the macro's usage and to automate the transformation of trivial cases. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-27use strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() for adding short hashes, part 2Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+6
Call strbuf_add_unique_abbrev() to add abbreviated hashes to strbufs instead of taking detours through find_unique_abbrev() and its static buffer. This is shorter and a bit more efficient. 1eb47f167d65d1d305b9c196a1bb40eb96117cb1 already converted six cases, this patch covers three more. A semantic patch for Coccinelle is included for easier checking for new cases that might be introduced in the future. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-27use strbuf_addstr() instead of strbuf_addf() with "%s", part 2Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+6
Replace uses of strbuf_addf() for adding strings with more lightweight strbuf_addstr() calls. This is shorter and makes the intent clearer. bc57b9c0cc5a123365a922fa1831177e3fd607ed already converted three cases, this patch covers two more. A semantic patch for Coccinelle is included for easier checking for new cases that might be introduced in the future. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-27gitignore: ignore output files of coccicheck make targetLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+1
Helped-by: Jakub Narębski <jnareb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-25use COPY_ARRAYLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+26
Add a semantic patch for converting certain calls of memcpy(3) to COPY_ARRAY() and apply that transformation to the code base. The result is shorter and safer code. For now only consider calls where source and destination have the same type, or in other words: easy cases. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-15use strbuf_addstr() for adding constant strings to a strbuf, part 2Libravatar René Scharfe1-0/+5
Replace uses of strbuf_addf() for adding strings with more lightweight strbuf_addstr() calls. This makes the intent clearer and avoids potential issues with printf format specifiers. 02962d36845b89145cd69f8bc65e015d78ae3434 already converted six cases, this patch covers eleven more. A semantic patch for Coccinelle is included for easier checking for new cases that might be introduced in the future. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-09-15contrib/coccinelle: fix semantic patch for oid_to_hex_r()Libravatar René Scharfe1-6/+6
Both sha1_to_hex_r() and oid_to_hex_r() take two parameters, so use two expressions in the semantic patch for transforming calls of the former to the latter one. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28contrib/coccinelle: add basic Coccinelle transformsLibravatar brian m. carlson2-0/+97
Coccinelle (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) is a program which performs mechanical transformations on C programs using semantic patches. These semantic patches can be used to implement automatic refactoring and maintenance tasks. Add a set of basic semantic patches to convert common patterns related to the struct object_id transformation, as well as a README. Signed-off-by: brian m. carlson <sandals@crustytoothpaste.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>