From: Marius Storm-Olsen <mstormo@gmail•com>
To: Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail•com>
Cc: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx•de, msysgit@googlegroups•com,
git@vger•kernel.org, lznuaa@gmail•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/14] Fix non-constant array creation
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:46:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A8EA53B.9080809@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40aa078e0908210641m660b003do6f637535293672ae@mail.gmail.com>
Erik Faye-Lund said the following on 21.08.2009 15:41:
> On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Marius Storm-Olsen<mstormo@gmail•com> wrote:
>> @@ -1875,7 +1875,7 @@ static int match_fragment(struct image *img,
>> size_t imgoff = 0;
>> size_t preoff = 0;
>> size_t postlen = postimage->len;
>> - size_t imglen[preimage->nr];
>> + size_t *imglen = xmalloc(sizeof(size_t) * preimage->nr);
>
> How about using alloca instead? It allocates from the stack (just like
> the C99-style variable-length array you're replacing), and you don't
> need to free the memory afterwards.
>
> ... or is alloca frowned upon? I see it's already used both in
> compat/regex/regex.c and in compat/nedmalloc/malloc.c, but not
> apparently not in the git core.
MSVC compiles regex.c, so it must handle it. I'm fine with that.
--
.marius
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-21 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-21 13:30 [RFC/PATCH 00/14] Build git with MSVC Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 01/14] Fix non-constant array creation Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:41 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-21 13:46 ` Marius Storm-Olsen [this message]
2009-08-21 16:26 ` [msysGit] " Janos Laube
2009-08-21 19:49 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 20:06 ` Johan 't Hart
2009-08-22 10:35 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-21 21:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-21 20:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 02/14] Avoid declaration after statement Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 03/14] Define SNPRINTF_SIZE_CORR=1 for Microsoft Visual C++ Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 20:55 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-21 21:18 ` Johan 't Hart
2009-08-21 21:41 ` Johannes Sixt
2009-08-21 22:11 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-22 11:25 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-22 11:32 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 04/14] Add define guards to compat/win32.h Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 05/14] Change regerror() declaration from K&R style to ANSI C (C89) Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 14:37 ` Frank Li
2009-08-21 20:10 ` [PATCH v2 05/14] Change regerror() definition " Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-22 0:15 ` Frank Li
2009-08-24 9:42 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 06/14] mingw.c: Use the O_BINARY flag to open files Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 07/14] Fix __stdcall/WINAPI placement and function prototype Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 17:37 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Sixt
2009-08-21 19:42 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 08/14] Test for WIN32 instead of __MINGW32_ Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-28 8:15 ` Paolo Bonzini
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 09/14] Avoid including windows.h in winansi.c for MSVC build Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 21:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2009-08-21 21:16 ` Reece Dunn
2009-08-22 11:40 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 10/14] Add empty header files for MSVC port Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 11/14] Add MinGW header files to build git with MSVC Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 12/14] Add platform files for MSVC porting Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 13/14] Add MSVC project files Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-21 13:30 ` [PATCH 14/14] Add README and gitignore file for MSVC build Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-23 16:26 ` Thiago Farina
2009-08-23 18:22 ` Reece Dunn
2009-08-23 18:59 ` Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-23 19:29 ` Thiago Farina
2009-08-24 7:03 ` [msysGit] " Marius Storm-Olsen
2009-08-25 14:32 ` Frank Li
2009-08-25 17:24 ` Thiago Farina
2009-08-27 13:16 ` Frank Li
2009-08-27 14:26 ` Thiago Farina
2009-09-07 12:26 ` Erik Faye-Lund
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