Re: [PATCH] bisect: save heap memory. allocate only the required amount

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

quoted

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