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From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/6] Add string comparison functions that respect the
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:52:20 -0500
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Joshua Jensen wrote:

> I don't like the idea of
> a double memory allocation/free combo per each call to this
> function, but it would work.

Maybe the caller can provide a (strbuf) buffer?