avoid asking ?alloc() for zero bytes.

Avoid asking for zero bytes when that change simplifies overall
logic.  Later we would change the wrapper to ask for 1 byte on
platforms that return NULL for zero byte request.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/tree-diff.c b/tree-diff.c
index 0ef06a9e36..382092bce0 100644
--- a/tree-diff.c
+++ b/tree-diff.c
@@ -263,6 +263,10 @@ void diff_tree_setup_paths(const char **p)
 
 		paths = p;
 		nr_paths = count_paths(paths);
+		if (nr_paths == 0) {
+			pathlens = NULL;
+			return;
+		}
 		pathlens = xmalloc(nr_paths * sizeof(int));
 		for (i=0; i<nr_paths; i++)
 			pathlens[i] = strlen(paths[i]);