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From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: "René Scharfe" <l.s.r@web.de>
Cc: Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>,
	Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>,
	Vicent Marti <tanoku@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size for recent_bitmaps
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 22:23:21 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150519022321.GA29026@peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <555A7499.7090900@web.de>

On Tue, May 19, 2015 at 01:24:09AM +0200, René Scharfe wrote:

> Use an automatic variable for recent_bitmaps, an array of pointers.
> This way we don't allocate too much and don't have to free the memory
> at the end.  The old code over-allocated because it reserved enough
> memory to store all of the structs it is only pointing to and never
> freed it.  160 64-bit pointers take up 1280 bytes, which is not too
> much to be placed on the stack.
> 
> MAX_XOR_OFFSET is turned into a preprocessor constant to make it
> constant enough for use in an non-variable array declaration.
> 
> Noticed-by: Stefan Beller <stefanbeller@gmail.com>
> Suggested-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
> Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
> ---
> This seems to have fallen through the cracks, or did I just miss it?

Thanks, this looks good.

I looked over the function one more time to make sure it is the function
that is wrong, and not my suggestion. :) The current code seems pretty
obviously wrong.

-Peff

  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-05-19  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-18 23:24 [PATCH] pack-bitmaps: plug memory leak, fix allocation size for recent_bitmaps René Scharfe
2015-05-19  0:57 ` Stefan Beller
2015-05-19 20:29   ` René Scharfe
2015-05-19  2:23 ` Jeff King [this message]
2015-05-19 19:45   ` Junio C Hamano
2015-05-19 21:19     ` Jeff King

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