read-cache: use size_t for {base,df}_name_compare()

Support names of any length in base_name_compare() and df_name_compare()
by using size_t for their length parameters.  They pass the length on to
memcmp(3), which also takes it as a size_t.

Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

2 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/cache.h b/cache.h
index 07d40b0964..dfa014c3c2 100644
--- a/cache.h
+++ b/cache.h
@@ -1609,8 +1609,10 @@ int repo_interpret_branch_name(struct repository *r,
 
 int validate_headref(const char *ref);
 
-int base_name_compare(const char *name1, int len1, int mode1, const char *name2, int len2, int mode2);
-int df_name_compare(const char *name1, int len1, int mode1, const char *name2, int len2, int mode2);
+int base_name_compare(const char *name1, size_t len1, int mode1,
+		      const char *name2, size_t len2, int mode2);
+int df_name_compare(const char *name1, size_t len1, int mode1,
+		    const char *name2, size_t len2, int mode2);
 int name_compare(const char *name1, size_t len1, const char *name2, size_t len2);
 int cache_name_stage_compare(const char *name1, int len1, int stage1, const char *name2, int len2, int stage2);
 
diff --git a/read-cache.c b/read-cache.c
index 46f5e497b1..8d7770f46c 100644
--- a/read-cache.c
+++ b/read-cache.c
@@ -488,11 +488,11 @@ int ie_modified(struct index_state *istate,
 	return 0;
 }
 
-int base_name_compare(const char *name1, int len1, int mode1,
-		      const char *name2, int len2, int mode2)
+int base_name_compare(const char *name1, size_t len1, int mode1,
+		      const char *name2, size_t len2, int mode2)
 {
 	unsigned char c1, c2;
-	int len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2;
+	size_t len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2;
 	int cmp;
 
 	cmp = memcmp(name1, name2, len);
@@ -517,11 +517,12 @@ int base_name_compare(const char *name1, int len1, int mode1,
  * This is used by routines that want to traverse the git namespace
  * but then handle conflicting entries together when possible.
  */
-int df_name_compare(const char *name1, int len1, int mode1,
-		    const char *name2, int len2, int mode2)
+int df_name_compare(const char *name1, size_t len1, int mode1,
+		    const char *name2, size_t len2, int mode2)
 {
-	int len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2, cmp;
 	unsigned char c1, c2;
+	size_t len = len1 < len2 ? len1 : len2;
+	int cmp;
 
 	cmp = memcmp(name1, name2, len);
 	if (cmp)