From: Costin Chirvasuta <costinc@gmail.com>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] bufreset deletes b->nbl-1 blocks?
Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2016 18:29:47 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAPv5z_0RUfRBszV07h0vzxA_YrUYV+_KMgwXfJEQTbdMJUBBrA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPd04b7R0OekF3cfRomf9FDBC8BPAWKcvkXFdia4nc6MM5ZV=w@mail.gmail.com>
> So isn't the memmove just to cover the case where you are
> deleting a block that isn't at the very end?
Yes, but from what I understand i is always lower.
Say b->nbl starts at 10. i=b->nbl-1 so i=9. --i so i=8.
Inside delblock b->nbl-- so b->nbl is 9. i<nbl is true so the memmove happens.
Also delblock(b, 0) never seems to happen.
On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 6:20 PM, James A. Robinson
<jim.robinson@gmail.com> wrote:
> But delblock only calls memmove if i is less then b->nbl, which was
> just decremented, correct?
>
> So isn't the memmove just to cover the case where you are
> deleting a block that isn't at the very end?
>
> Jim
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-12 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-12 12:30 Costin Chirvasuta
2016-08-12 15:20 ` James A. Robinson
2016-08-12 15:29 ` Costin Chirvasuta [this message]
2016-08-12 15:48 ` James A. Robinson
2016-08-12 16:10 ` Costin Chirvasuta
2016-08-12 16:16 ` James A. Robinson
2016-08-12 16:25 ` Costin Chirvasuta
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