From: Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net>
Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 18:24:37 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: update comment re power of 2
X-Git-Tag: cvs-readonly~5720
X-Git-Url: http://erislabs.org.uk/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d7314ae9fde9984d9cebe27a96806e02f77be64;p=gnulib.git

update comment re power of 2
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diff --git a/lib/xreadlink.c b/lib/xreadlink.c
index 333551fed..881b794f1 100644
--- a/lib/xreadlink.c
+++ b/lib/xreadlink.c
@@ -46,7 +46,9 @@
 char *
 xreadlink (char const *filename, size_t *link_length_arg)
 {
-  size_t buf_size = 128;  /* must be a power of 2 */
+  /* The initial buffer size for the link value.  A power of 2
+     detects arithmetic overflow earlier, but is not required.  */
+  size_t buf_size = 128;
   char *buffer = NULL;
 
   while (1)