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[v1,1/2] path.c: char is not (always) signed

Message ID 20181025161308.29207-1-tboegi@web.de (mailing list archive)
State New, archived
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Series [v1,1/2] path.c: char is not (always) signed | expand

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Torsten Bögershausen Oct. 25, 2018, 4:13 p.m. UTC 
From: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>

If a "char" in C is signed or unsigned is not specified, because it is
out of tradition "implementation dependent".
Therefore constructs like "if (name[i] < 0)" are not portable,
use "if (name[i] & 0x80)" instead.

Detected by "gcc (Raspbian 6.3.0-18+rpi1+deb9u1) 6.3.0 20170516" when
setting
DEVELOPER = 1
DEVOPTS = extra-all

Signed-off-by: Torsten Bögershausen <tboegi@web.de>
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 path.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/path.c b/path.c
index 34f0f98349..ba06ec5b2d 100644
--- a/path.c
+++ b/path.c
@@ -1369,7 +1369,7 @@  static int is_ntfs_dot_generic(const char *name,
 			saw_tilde = 1;
 		} else if (i >= 6)
 			return 0;
-		else if (name[i] < 0) {
+		else if (name[i] & 0x80) {
 			/*
 			 * We know our needles contain only ASCII, so we clamp
 			 * here to make the results of tolower() sane.