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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Christian Couder <christian.couder@gmail.com>
Cc: "Arjun Sreedharan" <arjun024@gmail.com>,
	git <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Christian Couder" <chriscool@tuxfamily.org>,
	"Junio C Hamano" <gitster@pobox.com>,
	"Nguyễn Thái Ngọc" <pclouds@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bisect: save heap memory. allocate only the required amount
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 11:00:28 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140825150028.GA28176@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP8UFD2FAfg5GenJXOkOsjU9vmCO3R3Difp6-mrP_cp4zXQENg@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 04:06:52PM +0200, Christian Couder wrote:

> > This allocation should be name_len + 1 for the NUL-terminator, no?
> 
> I wondered about that too, but as struct name_decoration is defined like this:
> 
> struct name_decoration {
>         struct name_decoration *next;
>         int type;
>         char name[1];
> };
> 
> the .name field of this struct already has one char, so the allocation
> above should be ok.

Yeah, you're right. I would argue it should just be FLEX_ARRAY for
consistency with other spots, though (in which case add_name_decoration
needs to be updated with a +1).

Running "git grep '^	char [^ ]*\[[01]]' -- '*.[ch]'" shows that this
is one of only two spots that don't use FLEX_ARRAY (and the other has a
comment explaining why not).

-Peff

  reply	other threads:[~2014-08-25 15:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-08-24 14:17 [PATCH] bisect: save heap memory. allocate only the required amount Arjun Sreedharan
2014-08-24 15:10 ` Stefan Beller
2014-08-24 23:39   ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-25 13:07     ` Jeff King
2014-08-25 21:36       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-26 11:03         ` Jeff King
2014-08-26 11:57           ` Ramsay Jones
2014-08-26 12:14             ` Jeff King
2014-08-26 12:37               ` Ramsay Jones
2014-08-26 12:43                 ` Jeff King
2014-08-26 12:59                   ` Ramsay Jones
2014-08-24 15:32 ` Ramsay Jones
2014-08-24 21:55   ` Arjun Sreedharan
2014-08-25 13:35 ` Jeff King
2014-08-25 14:06   ` Christian Couder
2014-08-25 15:00     ` Jeff King [this message]
2014-08-25 18:26       ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-25 19:35         ` Jeff King
2014-08-25 20:27           ` Arjun Sreedharan
2014-08-25 21:11           ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-26 10:20             ` [PATCH 0/3] name_decoration cleanups Jeff King
2014-08-26 10:23               ` [PATCH 1/3] log-tree: make add_name_decoration a public function Jeff King
2014-08-26 11:48                 ` Ramsay Jones
2014-08-26 12:17                   ` Jeff King
2014-08-26 10:23               ` [PATCH 2/3] log-tree: make name_decoration hash static Jeff King
2014-08-26 17:40                 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-26 17:43                   ` Jeff King
2014-08-26 19:25                     ` Junio C Hamano
2014-08-26 10:24               ` [PATCH 3/3] log-tree: use FLEX_ARRAY in name_decoration Jeff King
2014-08-27  0:30                 ` Eric Sunshine
2014-08-25 21:14 ` [PATCH] bisect: save heap memory. allocate only the required amount Junio C Hamano
2014-08-26  7:30   ` Arjun Sreedharan

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