Re: [PATCH 9/9] conf: remove dead code from get_hexachar

On Sat, 26 Dec 2020 22:35:47 +0100, Alex Henrie wrote:

Signed-off-by: Alex Henrie alexhenrie24@gmail.com

src/conf.c | 9 +-------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conf.c b/src/conf.c index 44d1bfde..970ad643 100644 --- a/src/conf.c +++ b/src/conf.c @@ -877,16 +877,9 @@ static int get_nonwhite(input_t *input)

static inline int get_hexachar(input_t *input) {

• int c, num = 0;

• int c; c = get_char(input);

• if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') num |= (c - '0') << 4;
• else if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') num |= (c - 'a') << 4;
• else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') num |= (c - 'A') << 4; c = get_char(input);
• if (c >= '0' && c <= '9') num |= (c - '0') << 0;
• else if (c >= 'a' && c <= 'f') num |= (c - 'a') << 0;
• else if (c >= 'A' && c <= 'F') num |= (c - 'A') << 0; return c;

The current code is obviously wrong and the suggested fix goes even to a wronger direction :) The function should return num instead.

I wonder how this did't hit any problem, so far. Maybe 0x prefix was rarely used, fortunately.

thanks,

Takashi