Fix type-punning issues

In these two places we are casting part of our unsigned char sha1 array into
an unsigned int, which violates GCCs strict-aliasing rules (and probably
other compilers).

Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

diff --git a/decorate.c b/decorate.c
index 82d9e22..e6fd8a7 100644 (file)
--- a/decorate.c
+++ b/decorate.c
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 
 static unsigned int hash_obj(const struct object *obj, unsigned int n)
 {
-       unsigned int hash = *(unsigned int *)obj->sha1;
+       unsigned int hash;
+
+       memcpy(&hash, obj->sha1, sizeof(unsigned int));
        return hash % n;
 }
 

diff --git a/object.c b/object.c
index 7e6a92c..e1feef9 100644 (file)
--- a/object.c
+++ b/object.c
@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ int type_from_string(const char *str)
 
 static unsigned int hash_obj(struct object *obj, unsigned int n)
 {
-       unsigned int hash = *(unsigned int *)obj->sha1;
+       unsigned int hash;
+       memcpy(&hash, obj->sha1, sizeof(unsigned int));
        return hash % n;
 }