[PATCH v2 04/12] pack-objects: widen `free_unpacked()` return to `size_t`

"Johannes Schindelin via GitGitGadget" <[email protected]> Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:14:31 +0000
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.git
Message-ID <9850de1a91c826e673a1dd401c84a4c14c15c317.1785946479.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
From: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>

`free_unpacked()` sums two byte counts: `sizeof_delta_index()` and
`SIZE(n->entry)`. The latter has been `size_t` since the prior topic
"More work supporting objects larger than 4GB on Windows" widened
`SIZE()`/`oe_size()` to `size_t`, so accumulating it into an `unsigned
long` return was a silent Windows-only truncation on a packing run with
many large objects.

The sole caller, `find_deltas()`, still holds its own `mem_usage` in an
`unsigned long` for now, and therefore still truncates silently.

Assisted-by: Opus 4.7
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <[email protected]>
---
 builtin/pack-objects.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/builtin/pack-objects.c b/builtin/pack-objects.c
index 97246c69ae..503ebbf091 100644
--- a/builtin/pack-objects.c
+++ b/builtin/pack-objects.c
@@ -2972,9 +2972,9 @@ static unsigned int check_delta_limit(struct object_entry *me, unsigned int n)
 	return m;
 }
 
-static unsigned long free_unpacked(struct unpacked *n)
+static size_t free_unpacked(struct unpacked *n)
 {
-	unsigned long freed_mem = sizeof_delta_index(n->index);
+	size_t freed_mem = sizeof_delta_index(n->index);
 	free_delta_index(n->index);
 	n->index = NULL;
 	if (n->data) {
-- 
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