Hi Stolee, On Tue, 27 Aug 2019, Derrick Stolee wrote:
> On 8/25/2019 10:43 PM, Eric Wong wrote: > > C compilers do type checking to make life easier for us. So > > rely on that and update all hashmap_entry_init callers to take > > "struct hashmap_entry *" to avoid future bugs while improving > > safety and readability. > > Overall I like this change. I'll need to keep it in mind with my > sparse-checkout work that is adding more hashmap types. > > One _might_ think that this change is relaxing the condition on > where the hashmap_entry appears within the super-struct, but > the hashmap internals will still use void* and perform a cast > to hashmap_entry for hash comparisons. I thought precisely the same. Maybe we can get a Coccinelle rule that verifies that `struct hashmap_entryh` fields are always the first ones? Ciao, Dscho
