mailmap: work around implementations with pure inline strcasecmp
authorJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 15:37:08 +0000 (08:37 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 12 Sep 2013 19:05:48 +0000 (12:05 -0700)
On some systems (e.g. MinGW 4.0), string.h has only inline
definition of strcasecmp and no non-inline implementation is
supplied anywhere, which is, eh, "unusual". We cannot take an
address of such a function to store it in namemap.cmp.

Work it around by introducing our own level of indirection.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
mailmap.c
index 44614fc411fa7948d710c07a0262454aa0e76d0b..91a7532506328ff5d65c049d32a9e23a6d849b8b 100644 (file)
--- a/mailmap.c
+++ b/mailmap.c
@@ -52,6 +52,20 @@ static void free_mailmap_entry(void *p, const char *s)
        string_list_clear_func(&me->namemap, free_mailmap_info);
 }
 
+/*
+ * On some systems (e.g. MinGW 4.0), string.h has _only_ inline
+ * definition of strcasecmp and no non-inline implementation is
+ * supplied anywhere, which is, eh, "unusual"; we cannot take an
+ * address of such a function to store it in namemap.cmp.  This is
+ * here as a workaround---do not assign strcasecmp directly to
+ * namemap.cmp until we know no systems that matter have such an
+ * "unusual" string.h.
+ */
+static int namemap_cmp(const char *a, const char *b)
+{
+       return strcasecmp(a, b);
+}
+
 static void add_mapping(struct string_list *map,
                        char *new_name, char *new_email,
                        char *old_name, char *old_email)
@@ -75,7 +89,7 @@ static void add_mapping(struct string_list *map,
                item = string_list_insert_at_index(map, index, old_email);
                me = xcalloc(1, sizeof(struct mailmap_entry));
                me->namemap.strdup_strings = 1;
-               me->namemap.cmp = strcasecmp;
+               me->namemap.cmp = namemap_cmp;
                item->util = me;
        }
 
@@ -241,7 +255,7 @@ int read_mailmap(struct string_list *map, char **repo_abbrev)
        int err = 0;
 
        map->strdup_strings = 1;
-       map->cmp = strcasecmp;
+       map->cmp = namemap_cmp;
 
        if (!git_mailmap_blob && is_bare_repository())
                git_mailmap_blob = "HEAD:.mailmap";