From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Phillip Wood <phillip.wood@dunelm.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY()
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 11:17:50 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqy1xednht.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bead9856be7b39d3d03f688f53d678832d60109.1656516334.git.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget's message of "Wed, 29 Jun 2022 15:25:33 +0000")
"Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com> writes:
> diff --git a/xdiff/xmacros.h b/xdiff/xmacros.h
> index 9fd3c5da91a..23db8e785d7 100644
> --- a/xdiff/xmacros.h
> +++ b/xdiff/xmacros.h
> @@ -55,4 +55,10 @@ do { \
> ? xdl_malloc((nr) * sizeof(*(p))) \
> : NULL)
>
> +/* Allocate an array of nr zeroed out elements, returns NULL on failure */
> +#define XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY(p, nr) \
> + (XDL_ALLOC_ARRAY((p), (nr)) \
> + ? memset((p), 0, (nr) * sizeof(*(p))) \
> + : NULL)
> +
This implementation is somewhat dissapointing. Allocating and then
clearing is conceptually different from allocating an already
cleared buffer.
Wouldn't it make more sense to build on top of xcalloc() or its
counterpart in xdl world by introducing xdl_calloc()? For that,
this step would probably need to become two patches. The first
patch introduces xdl_calloc(), which uses xcalloc() in our codebase,
and turn the existing "alloc and clear" code to use it, and the
second patch would wrap the use of xdl_calloc() in the size-safe
macro XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY().
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-30 18:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-29 15:25 [PATCH 0/3] xdiff: introduce memory allocation macros Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-29 15:25 ` [PATCH 1/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-29 15:25 ` [PATCH 2/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-30 18:17 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-07-06 13:17 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-29 15:25 ` [PATCH 3/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-06-30 10:54 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 12:03 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-30 12:38 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-30 13:25 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-06 13:23 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-07 11:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 9:35 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 0/7] xdiff: use standard alloc macros, share them via git-shared-util.h Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 1/7] xdiff: simplify freeing patterns around xdl_free_env() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 2/7] git-shared-util.h: move "shared" allocation utilities here Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 3/7] git-shared-util.h: add G*() versions of *ALLOC_*() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:06 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 4/7] xdiff: use G[C]ALLOC_ARRAY(), not XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:10 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 5/7] xdiff: use GALLOC_GROW(), not XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:13 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-11 10:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 9:09 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-13 10:48 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:21 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 6/7] xdiff: remove xdl_malloc() wrapper, use malloc(), not xmalloc() Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 17:42 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 21:44 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 19:35 ` Jeff King
2022-07-08 21:47 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 9:33 ` Jeff King
2022-07-08 14:20 ` [PATCH 7/7] xdiff: remove xdl_free(), use free() instead Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 17:51 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-08 21:26 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 9:26 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-11 9:54 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-11 10:02 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-13 13:00 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-13 13:18 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-06-30 18:32 ` [PATCH 3/3] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Junio C Hamano
2022-07-06 13:14 ` Phillip Wood
2022-06-30 10:46 ` [PATCH 0/3] xdiff: introduce memory allocation macros Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] " Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] xdiff: introduce xdl_calloc Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] xdiff: introduce XDL_CALLOC_ARRAY() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 16:25 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] xdiff: introduce XDL_ALLOC_GROW() Phillip Wood via GitGitGadget
2022-07-08 22:17 ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-07-11 10:00 ` Phillip Wood
2022-07-12 7:19 ` Jeff King
2022-07-13 9:38 ` Phillip Wood
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