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2017-10-10cleanup: fix possible overflow errors in binary searchLibravatar Derrick Stolee1-1/+1
A common mistake when writing binary search is to allow possible integer overflow by using the simple average: mid = (min + max) / 2; Instead, use the overflow-safe version: mid = min + (max - min) / 2; This translation is safe since the operation occurs inside a loop conditioned on "min < max". The included changes were found using the following git grep: git grep '/ *2;' '*.c' Making this cleanup will prevent future review friction when a new binary search is contructed based on existing code. Signed-off-by: Derrick Stolee <dstolee@microsoft.com> Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-07-11diff: fix a double off-by-one with --ignore-space-at-eolLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-1/+1
When comparing two lines, ignoring any whitespace at the end, we first try to match as many bytes as possible and break out of the loop only upon mismatch, to let the remainder be handled by the code shared with the other whitespace-ignoring code paths. When comparing the bytes, however, we incremented the counters always, even if the bytes did not match. And because we fall through to the space-at-eol handling at that point, it is as if that mismatch never happened. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-02-19xdiff: PATIENCE/HISTOGRAM are not independent option bitsLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Because the default Myers, patience and histogram algorithms cannot be in effect at the same time, XDL_PATIENCE_DIFF and XDL_HISTOGRAM_DIFF are not independent bits. Instead of wasting one bit per algorithm, define a few macros to access the few bits they occupy and update the code that access them. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-07-07xdiff/xpatience: factor out fall-back-diff functionLibravatar Tay Ray Chuan1-25/+2
This is in preparation for the histogram diff algorithm, which will also re-use much of the code to call the default Meyers diff algorithm. Signed-off-by: Tay Ray Chuan <rctay89@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-01-07Implement the patience diff algorithmLibravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+381
The patience diff algorithm produces slightly more intuitive output than the classic Myers algorithm, as it does not try to minimize the number of +/- lines first, but tries to preserve the lines that are unique. To this end, it first determines lines that are unique in both files, then the maximal sequence which preserves the order (relative to both files) is extracted. Starting from this initial set of common lines, the rest of the lines is handled recursively, with Myers' algorithm as a fallback when the patience algorithm fails (due to no common unique lines). This patch includes memory leak fixes by Pierre Habouzit. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>