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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] repack: convert "names" util bitfield to array
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Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> Yeah, I actually considered writing it that way, but it felt a bit sill=
y
> to use _ARRAY for something which is clearly meant to be a single item.

You are not alone.  I updated R=C3=A9ne's coccinelle rules to refrain
from converting xcalloc() to CALLOC_ARRAY() for a single element
case exactly because it feels silly to use array function for a
singleton with 1c57cc70 (cocci: allow xcalloc(1, size), 2021-03-15).