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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | git-compat-util.h | 2 |
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt b/Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt index 542946b1ba..5a59b54844 100644 --- a/Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt +++ b/Documentation/technical/api-allocation-growing.txt @@ -34,3 +34,6 @@ item[nr++] = value you like; ------------ You are responsible for updating the `nr` variable. + +If you need to specify the number of elements to allocate explicitly +then use the macro `REALLOC_ARRAY(item, alloc)` instead of `ALLOC_GROW`. diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h index 4e7e3f8726..5a15b53d67 100644 --- a/git-compat-util.h +++ b/git-compat-util.h @@ -626,6 +626,8 @@ extern int odb_mkstemp(char *template, size_t limit, const char *pattern); extern int odb_pack_keep(char *name, size_t namesz, const unsigned char *sha1); extern char *xgetcwd(void); +#define REALLOC_ARRAY(x, alloc) (x) = xrealloc((x), (alloc) * sizeof(*(x))) + static inline size_t xsize_t(off_t len) { if (len > (size_t) len) |