Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] hash: expose hash context functions to Rust

From: Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2025 09:32:50 -0700

"brian m. carlson" <[email-masked]> writes:

> +struct git_hash_ctx *git_hash_alloc(void)
> +{
> +	return malloc(sizeof(struct git_hash_ctx));
> +}

Not an objection, but this looked especially curious to me because
it has been customary to use xmalloc() for a thing like this.  Going
forward, is our intention that we'd explicitly handle OOM allocation
failures ourselves, at least in the Rust part of the code base?