Re: [PATCH] pack-objects: use free()+xcalloc() instead of xrealloc()+memset()

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 10:40:44PM +0200, David Kastrup wrote:

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BTW, the code does git-blame to Vicent's 2834bc2 (which I also worked
on), but actually originated in 7a979d9 (Thin pack - create packfile
with missing delta base., 2006-02-19). Not that it matters, but I was
just surprised since the code you are changing did not seem familiar to
me. I guess there was just too much refactoring during the code movement
for git-blame to pass along the blame in this case.

Without -M, "too much refactoring" for git-blame may just be moving a
function to a different place in the same file.

I tried "git blame -M -C -C -C pack-objects.c" but couldn't get anything
but the whole thing blamed to 2834bc2.

Are you two being a bit too unreasonable, or trying to be fanciful
and funny and I am not getting the humor?

Here is the relevant part of what 2834bc27 (pack-objects: refactor
the packing list, 2013-10-24) removes from builtin/pack-objects.c:

-	object_ix = xrealloc(object_ix, sizeof(int) * object_ix_hashsz);
-	memset(object_ix, 0, sizeof(int) * object_ix_hashsz);

And here is how the same rehash is done in pack-objects.c at the
toplevel in the new code:

+	pdata->index = xrealloc(pdata->index, sizeof(uint32_t) * pdata->index_size);
+	memset(pdata->index, 0, sizeof(int) * pdata->index_size);

Surely, the code structure may be similar, but the similarity ends
there.  These lines are not equivalent even under the "-w" option.