Re: [PATCH] Fix sizeof usage in get_permutations

["Joachim Schmitz" <jojo@schmitz-digital.de>]

Matthew Daley wrote:
> Currently it gets the size of an otherwise unrelated, unused variable
> instead of the expected struct size.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Daley <mattjd@gmail.com>
> ---
> builtin/pack-redundant.c |    6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/builtin/pack-redundant.c b/builtin/pack-redundant.c
> index f5c6afc..7544687 100644
> --- a/builtin/pack-redundant.c
> +++ b/builtin/pack-redundant.c
> @@ -301,14 +301,14 @@ static void pll_free(struct pll *l)
>  */
> static struct pll * get_permutations(struct pack_list *list, int n)
> {
> - struct pll *subset, *ret = NULL, *new_pll = NULL, *pll;
> + struct pll *subset, *ret = NULL, *new_pll = NULL;
> 
>  if (list == NULL || pack_list_size(list) < n || n == 0)
>  return NULL;
> 
>  if (n == 1) {
>  while (list) {
> - new_pll = xmalloc(sizeof(pll));
> + new_pll = xmalloc(sizeof(struct pll));
>  new_pll->pl = NULL;
>  pack_list_insert(&new_pll->pl, list);
>  new_pll->next = ret;
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ static struct pll * get_permutations(struct
>  pack_list *list, int n) while (list->next) {
>  subset = get_permutations(list->next, n - 1);
>  while (subset) {
> - new_pll = xmalloc(sizeof(pll));
> + new_pll = xmalloc(sizeof(struct pll));

Why not just
new_pll = xmalloc(sizeof(*new_pll));

>  new_pll->pl = subset->pl;
>  pack_list_insert(&new_pll->pl, list);
>  new_pll->next = ret;