Re: [PATCH 06/12] delta: widen `create_delta()` and `diff_delta()` to `size_t`

Patrick Steinhardt <[email protected]> Wed, 5 Aug 2026 11:23:12 +0200
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, Jul 09, 2026 at 04:49:33PM +0000, Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget wrote:
[snip]
> Note that GCC struggles a bit to figure out that `deltalen` is always
> initialized before it is used; To help it along, we initialize it to 0.
> This work-around will go away in a later patch series when `deltalen`
> can be widened to `size_t`.

Thanks for putting this note here, I was wondering about that part.

Patrick