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Optimization #6855

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src: var code cleanups

Added by Victor Julien about 1 year ago. Updated 5 months ago.

Status:
In Review
Priority:
Normal
Assignee:
Jeff Lucovsky
Target version:
8.0.0-beta1
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Description

GenericVar and related types use a field "type" which is 8 bits, but it is used to hold the sigmatch type, which is 16 bits. It's not currently causing issues, but needs to be cleaned up.

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 #1

Updated by Philippe Antoine about 1 year ago

How come we did not have a compiler warning for this ?..

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Updated by Philippe Antoine about 1 year ago

Philippe Antoine wrote in #note-1:

How come we did not have a compiler warning for this ?..

Looks like GenericVar type is never set by itself, but setting it in a FlowVar or such and then casting to this common struct...

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Updated by Jeff Lucovsky 5 months ago

  • Status changed from New to In Review
  • Assignee changed from OISF Dev to Jeff Lucovsky
  • Target version changed from TBD to 8.0.0-beta1
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